Suppose . . . burglars had made entry into this . . . [library]. Picture them seated here on this floor, pouring… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If they [the dead] should speak, it would be found that in matters of opinion no departed person was exactly what he… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Of the 417 commandments, only a single one of the 417 has found ministerial obedience; multiply and replenish the earth. To it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I thought tamarinds were made to eat, but that was probably not the idea. I ate several, and it seemed to me… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You have heretofore found out, by my teachings, that man is a fool; you are now aware that woman is a damned… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Perfect grammar - persistent, continuous, sustained - is the fourth dimension, so to speak; many have sought it, but none has found… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I'm the only person who has ever found the right way to build an autobiography. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A sin takes on a new and real terror when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The miracle or the power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance under the promptings… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
No one is willing to acknowledge a fault in himself when a more agreeable motive can be found for the estrangement of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We are always hearing of people who are around seeking after the Truth. I have never seen a (permanent) specimen. I think… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination? — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I am technically "boss" of the family which I am carrying along-but I am grateful to know that it is only technically… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I pledged myself to smoke but one cigar a day. I kept the cigar waiting until bedtime, then I had a luxurious… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have damaged my intellect trying to imagine why a man should want to invent a repeating clock, and how another man… — 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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