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Certain Quotes by Mark Twain
- We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands of sharply-contrasted colors: great stretches…
- When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was…
- That is the way of the scientist. He will spend thirty years in building up a mountain range of facts with the intent to prove…
- We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.
- To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount, that man isn't rich.
- Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
- When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.
- Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
- But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down to a certain…
- Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.
- Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
- Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain
- In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.
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