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Born Quotes by Mark Twain
- The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for one…
- Modesty died when clothes were born.
- Foreigners cannot enjoy our food, I suppose, any more than we can enjoy theirs. It is not strange; for tastes are made, not born. I…
- If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement…
- I have been born more times than anybody except Krishna.
- If God had meant for us to be naked, we'd have been born that way.
- If men bore children, there would only be one born in each family.
- I was born with Halley's Comet and I expect to die upon its return
- Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more…
- Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy,…
- Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born -a hundred million years -and I have suffered more…
- Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others-his last breath.
- A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages over…
- Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
- there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on earth who writes…
- I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest…
- I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the limit forty years…
- The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed…
- I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit.
- The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is--a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage…
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