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He Quotes by Mark Twain
- George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
- A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
- In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
- A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
- A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
- Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
- God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
- A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
- The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
- Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
- He is now rising from affluence to poverty.
- How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.
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