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General Quotes by Mark Twain
- Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.
- Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep in the gutter.…
- Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval - a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more dreaded than wolves…
- I will remark in the way of general information, that in California, that land of felicitous nomenclature, the literary name of this sort of stuff…
- A policeman in plain clothes is a man; in his uniform he is ten. Clothes and title are the most potent thing, the most formidable…
- I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the…
- Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world…
- We catched fish, and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the…
- Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.
- By the etiquette of war, it is permitted to none below the rank of newspaper correspondent to dictate to the general in the field
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