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Cutting Quotes by Mark Twain
- Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days…
- Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking every prison lock…
- More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.
- The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when…
- Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of them. He is…
- We don't cut up when mad men are bred by the old legitimate regular stock religions, but we can't allow wildcat religions to indulge in…
- Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.
- The old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying that such a…
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