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From Quotes by Mark Twain
- An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.
- Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.
- 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…
- He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.
- Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly…
- Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.
- The vast majority of the race whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind at heart and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of…
- Throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. So many look to eradicate fear from their lives, when that is…
- Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of…
- The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders are readers. However…
- He had an uncommon fondness for cats. As an old man summering in New Hampshire, Twain even rented kittens from a nearby farm to keep…
- I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison.
- I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I…
- The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetics in childbirth…
- We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have…
- The Germans are exceedingly fond of Rhine wines; they are put up in tall, slender bottles, and are considered a pleasant beverage. One tells them…
- There's nobody for me to attack in this matter even with soft and gentle ridicule-and I shouldn't ever think of using a grown up weapon…
- There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press
- We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically at least.
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