The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do — 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
To one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, seems the loveliest. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one...the Descent… — 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
If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Do not undervalue the headache. While it is at its sharpest it seems a bad investment; but when relief begins, the unexpired… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We all know about the habits of the ant, we know all about the habits of the bee, but we know nothing… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are no accidents, all things have a deep and calculated purpose; sometimes the methods employed by Providence seem strange and incongruous,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Nevertheless we have this curious spectacle: daily the trained parrot in the pulpit gravely delivers himself of these ironies, which he has… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The true and lasting genius of humour does not drag you thus to boxes labelled 'pathos,' 'humour,' and show you all the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest? — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Man seems to be a rickety poor sort of thing, any way you take him; a kind of British Museum of infirmities… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
But we are all insane, anyway ... The suicides seem to be the only sane people. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Probably there is an imperceptible touch of something permanent that one feels instinctively to adhere to true humour, whereas wit may be… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I think that the reason why we Americans seem to be so addicted to trying to get rich suddenly is merely because… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is the will of God that we must have critics, and missionaries, and Congressmen, and humorists, and we must bear the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The law of work seems unfair, but nothing can change it; the more enjoyment you get out of your work, the more… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name Bzjxxllwcp is pronounced Jackson. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the… — 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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