Suppose . . . burglars had made entry into this . . . [library]. Picture them seated here on this floor, pouring… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
As I have said before, I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are three infallible ways of pleasing an author, and the three form a rising scale of compliment: 1, to tell him… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' but that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There's nobody for me to attack in this matter even with soft and gentle ridicule-and I shouldn't ever think of using a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Well - Patriotism has its laws. And it also is a perfectly definite one, there are not vaguenesses about it. It commands… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“This book is merely a personal narrative, and not a pretentious history or a philosophical dissertation. It is a record of several… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are no witches. The witch text remains; only the practice has changed. Hell fire is gone, but the text remains. Infant… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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