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Instance Quotes by Mark Twain
- Is a person's public and private opinion the same? It is thought there have been instances.
- There is nothing like instances to grow hair on a bald-headed argument.
- For instance, take this sample: he has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights, the one…
- You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.
- There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass, for instance: his…
- Missionarying was a better thing in those days than it is in ours. All you had to do was to cure the head savage´s sick…
- I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.
More Instance Quotes
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour
- When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched… — Chinua Achebe
- He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his… — Samuel Adams
- An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare… — Felix Adler
- Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon. — Sidney Altman
- If you have to prove a theorem, do not rush. First of all, understand fully what the theorem says, try to see… — George Polya
- There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war. — Saul Bellow
- You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are… — Hans Bender