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Account Quotes by Mark Twain
- All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.
- Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep in the gutter.…
- The moral of it is this: If you are of any account, stay at home and make your way by faithful diligence; but if you…
- Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.
- Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.
- If a spectacle is going to be particularly imposing I prefer to see it through somebody else's eyes, because that man will always exaggerate. Then…
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- There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings… — Saul Bellow
- To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine. — Max Beerbohm
- Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own. — Ambrose Bierce
- A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular… — A. C. Benson
- Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs… — Saint Basil