Mark Twain Quotes

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• ...and last but not least, reflecting my feelings on proofreading...excuse any pages on my websites that have misspelled words or grammatical errors...I'm not a proofreader…
• I would not read the proof of one of my books for any fair & reasonable sum whatever, if I could get out of it.…
• Is a person's public and private opinion the same? It is thought there have been instances.
• One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it.
• The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.
• A woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologize.
• There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it.
• There has been only one Christian. They caught and curcified him-early.
• Grown people everywhere are always likely to cling to the religion they were brought up in.
• The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable.
• Few of us stand prosperity; another man's I mean.
• If you want love and abundance in your life, give it away.
• Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream.
• Throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
• Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass.
• We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks- if we agree with him.
• It is better to give than receive- especially advice.
• The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets…
• The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. Nor upon a cold stove lid.
• I simply can´t resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside of the girl…

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