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First Quotes by Mark Twain
- The world doesn't owe you anything. It was here first.
- Surely the ass who invented the first religion ought to be the first ass damned
- 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…
- But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our…
- You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder…
- I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to literature. ... The…
- It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains all run together,…
- A man's house burns down. The smoking wreckage represents only a ruined home that was dear through years of use and pleasant associations. By and…
- If you invent two or three people and turn them loose in your manuscript, something is bound to happen to them -- you can't help…
- What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it.
- My first American ancestor, gentlemen, was an Indian-an early Indian. Your ancestors skinned him alive, and I am an orphan. All those Salem witches were…
- If there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first.
- The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.
- My advice to girls: first, don't smoke - to excess; second, don't drink - to excess; third, don't marry - to excess.
- A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.
- For instance, take this sample: he has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights, the one…
- I am trying to get the hang of this new fangled writing machine, but I am not making a shining success of it. However, this…
- Adam was not alone in the Garden of Eden, however, and does not deserve all the credit; much is due to Eve, the first woman,…
- That reminds me to remark, in passing, that the very first official thing I did, in my administration-and it was on the first day of…
- From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one -- to secure…
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- "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all good things will be added unto you." Follow God and you shall have… — Swami Vivekananda
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong