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Form Quotes by Mark Twain
- The average American's simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak.
- A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes…
- O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the…
- Man is the only slave. And he is the only animal who enslaves. He has always been a slave in one form or another, and…
- As I have said before, I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its…
- What is the real function, the essential function, the supreme function, of language? Isn't it merely to convey ideas and emotions? Certainly. Then if we…
- There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
- No one is sane, straight along, year in and year out, and we all know it. Our insanities are of varying sorts, and express themselves…
- A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.
- We must put up with our clothes as they are - they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us -…
- Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and effective delivery with…
- The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and…
- New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.
- There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the…
- Dates are hard to remember because they consist of figures; figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don't take hold, they form no pictures,…
- There are three infallible ways of pleasing an author, and the three form a rising scale of compliment: 1, to tell him you have read…
- It is human life. We are blown upon the world; we float buoyantly upon the summer air a little while, complacently showing off our grace…
- Humor must be one of the chief attributes of God. Plants and animals that are distinctly humorous in form and characteristics are God's jokes.
- The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race.
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