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Great Quotes by Mark Twain
- We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands of sharply-contrasted colors: great stretches…
- Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.
- We have to keep our God placated with prayer, and even then we are never sure of him-how much higher and finer is the Indian's…
- ...and last but not least, reflecting my feelings on proofreading...excuse any pages on my websites that have misspelled words or grammatical errors...I'm not a proofreader…
- It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Overnight success is a fallacy. It is preceded by a great deal…
- All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.
- Out of the depths of my happy heart wells a great tide of love and prayer for this priceless treasure that is confided to my…
- What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules &…
- If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost…
- I told that girl, in the kindest, gentlest way, that I could not consent to deliver judgment upon any one's manuscript, because an individual's verdict…
- 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…
- India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand…
- I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great.
- 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…
- Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink - under any…
- Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but…
- When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.
- Whatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it.
- To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.
- There is no urge so great as for one man to edit another man's work.
- In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money.
- Great things can happen when you don't care who gets the credit.
- There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of…
- 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 hate to hear people say this Judge will vote so and so, because he is a Democrat -- and this one so and so…
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