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Knew Quotes by Mark Twain
- There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.
- We never knew an ignorant person yet but was prejudiced.
- Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.
- I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.
- I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn't.
- You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know the laws: by words, not by effects. They take a meaning,…
- 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…
- That reminds me to remark, in passing, that the very first official thing I did, in my administration-and it was on the first day of…
- What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
- Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly…
- Every one knew he could foretell wars and famines, though that was not so hard, for there was always a war, and generally a famine…
- Eventually, I sickened of people, myself included, who didn't think enough of themselves to make something of themselves- people who did only what they had…
- A brown spotted lady-bug climbed the dizzy height of a grass blade, and Tom bent down close to it and said, "Lady-bug, lady-bug, fly away…
- I was educated, I was trained, I was a Presbyterian and I knew how these things are done. I knew that in Biblical times if…
- How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.
- (Twain on Cain): it was his misfortune to live in a dark age that knew not the beneficent Insanity Plea.
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