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Got Quotes by Mark Twain
- 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…
- When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was…
- My father was an amazing man. The older I got, the smarter he got.
- 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…
- I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when…
- But in this country we have one great privilege which they don't have in other countries. When a thing gets to be absolutely unbearable the…
- By reading keep in a state of excited igorance, like a blind man in a house afire; flounder around, immensely but unintelligently interested; don't know…
- It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just as you think…
- You can't break a bad habit by throwing it out the window. You've got to walk it slowly down the stairs.
- I begin to see that a man's got to be in his own heaven to be happy.
- Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies.
- Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking every prison lock…
- I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it.
- I love to revel in philosophical matters-especially astronomy. I study astronomy more than any other foolishness there is. I am a perfect slave to it.…
- But that's always the way; it don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just…
- They all laid their heads together like as many lawyers when they are gettin' ready to prove that a man's heirs ain't got any right…
- All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way…
- Rise early. It is the early bird that catches the worm. Don't be fooled by this absurd law; I once knew a man who tried…
- The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds of America. They…
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