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Far Quotes by Mark Twain
- Chastity - you can carry it too far.
- Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised…
- I never could do anything with figures, never had any talent for mathematics, never accomplished anything in my efforts at that rugged study, and to-day…
- It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as…
- So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country…
- Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media, for they will…
- Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep in the gutter.…
- It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for…
- How far we travel in life matters far less than those we meet along the way.
- Simplified spelling is all right, but, like chastity, you can carry it too far.
- I have damaged my intellect trying to imagine why a man should want to invent a repeating clock, and how another man could be found…
- The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your leg they don't…
- There is nothing in either savage or civilized history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father of Mercy´s campaign among the…
- Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry…
- When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them--then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when…
- Saturday morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life. There was a song in every heart; and…
- It has been reported that I was seriously ill--it was another man; dying--it was another man; dead--the other man again...As far as I can see,…
- So you see, the quality of humor is not a personal or a national monopoly. It's as free as salvation, and, I am afraid, far…
- The inability to forget is far more devastating than the inability to remember.
- I find no change of consequence in grown people, I do not miss the dead. It does not surprise me to hear that this friend…
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