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Used Quotes by Mark Twain

14 Used quotes by Mark Twain

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Mark Twain’s 14 sharp observations cut straight to the heart of feeling used. He mixes sarcasm with plainspoken wisdom, making each line feel like a quick, pointed reminder about human self‑interest. Perfect for a brief but memorable look at how we all get taken advantage of.

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There was a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow…

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

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It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing - I used to be a good boy.

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I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one... Then I thought he was a genus.

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It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during…

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It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay…

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I pledged myself to smoke but one cigar a day. I kept the cigar waiting until bedtime, then I had a luxurious…

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Whenever he was out of luck and a little down-hearted, he would fall to mourning over the loss of a wonderful cat…

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Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard…

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The true and lasting genius of humour does not drag you thus to boxes labelled 'pathos,' 'humour,' and show you all the…

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A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster…

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The kernel, the soul let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all…

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Sometimes I lifted a chicken that warn't roosting comfortable, and took him along. Pap always said, take a chicken when you get…

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We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at…

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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.

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If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could…

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“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before…

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It's easy to quit smoking. I've done it hundreds of times.

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“It is never wrong to do the right thing.”

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A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually…

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There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach.

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I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get…

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The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get…

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“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to…

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Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.

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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…

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If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and…

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You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly…

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Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

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