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Comes Quotes by Mark Twain
- An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.
- The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but the fly comes close.
- ....honest men are few when it comes to themselves.
- What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules &…
- Word it as softly as you please, the spirit of patriotism is the spirit of the dog and wolf. The moment there is a misunderstanding…
- Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.
- I don't speak German well but several experts have assured me that I write it like an angel. Maybe so, maybe so- I don't know.…
- Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation.
- When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface
- A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.
- When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Kentucky, because everything there happens 20 years after it happens anywhere else.
- Good judgment comes from experience. And where does experience come from? Experience comes from bad judgment.
- A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by.
- The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. The walking is good to time…
- 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…
- As to the human race. There are many pretty and winning things about the human race. It is perhaps the poorest of all the inventions…
- 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…
- Each season brings a world of enjoyment and interest in the watching of its unfolding, its gradual harmonious development, its culminating graces-and just as one…
- The calamity that comes is never the one we had prepared ourselves for.
- The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
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