Mark Twain Quotes

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• The average American's simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak.
• It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's.
• After a few months' acquaintance with European 'coffee' one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage…
• At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass
• What a man misses mostly in heaven is company.
• There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in…
• The miracle or the power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance under the promptings of a brave,…
• I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.
• Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.
• But we are all insane, anyway ... The suicides seem to be the only sane people.
• I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are…
• If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.
• An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.
• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.
• The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had…
• There is no security in life, only opportunity.
• When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how…
• A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
• I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.
• Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it.

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