I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Listen — and do not doubt me, for I shall speak the exact truth. Howard Tracy, I am no more an earl’s… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is this trouble about special providences namely, there is so often a doubt as to which party was intended to be… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
More than once I have been humiliated by my resemblance to God the father; He is always longing for the love of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Whenever he was out of luck and a little down-hearted, he would fall to mourning over the loss of a wonderful cat… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
As to the human race. There are many pretty and winning things about the human race. It is perhaps the poorest of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The best minds will tell you that when a man has begotten a child he is morally bound to tenderly care for… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Missionarying was a better thing in those days than it is in ours. All you had to do was to cure the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In all the ages the Roman Church has owned slaves, bought and sold slaves, authorized and encouraged her children to trade in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family… — 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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and… — Mark Twain Copy Share
You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly… — Mark Twain Copy Share
Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. — Mark Twain Copy Share
