I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the… — 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
Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Many of the cemeteries are beautiful, and are kept in perfect order. When one goes from the levee or the business streets… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brains. But I cannot help you to a decision… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Presbyterianism without infant damnation would be like the dog on the train that couldn't be identified because it had lost its tag. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Strip the human race, absolutely naked, and it would be a real democracy. But the introduction of even a rag of tiger… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If the Christians of America could be persuaded to vote God and a clean ticket, it would bring about a moral revolution… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If we only had some God in the country's laws, instead of being in such a sweat to get him into the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease. They… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A Christian's first duty is to God. It then follows, as a matter of course, that it is his duty to carry… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If there wasn't anything to find out, it would be dull. Even trying to find out and not finding out is just… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When I take up one of Jane Austen's books ... I feel like a barkeep entering the kingdom of heaven. I know… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
That is their way, those plagues, those scientists - peg, peg, peg - dig, dig, dig - plod, plod, plod. I wish… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Learn from the mistakes of others - you won't live long enough to make them all yourself. He's opposed to millionaires, but… — 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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