Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have not professionally dealt in truth. Many when they come to die have spent all the truth that was in them,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
No man that has ever lived has done a thing to please God--primarily. It was done to please himself, then God next. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
[Patriotism] ...is a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn't a foot of land in the world which doesn't represent the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Suppose . . . burglars had made entry into this . . . [library]. Picture them seated here on this floor, pouring… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. To live a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Next you'd see a raft sliding by, away off yonder, and maybe a galoot on it chopping. . . you'd see the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In our day we don't allow a hundred and thirty years to elapse between glimpses of a marvel. If somebody should discover… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have witnessed and greatly enjoyed the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Heroine: Girl in a book who is saved from drowning by a hero and marries him next week, but if it was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We catched fish, and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I was an arden Hayes man, but that was natural, for I was pretty young at the time, I have since convinced… — 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
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