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Large Quotes by Mark Twain
- My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.
- As I have said before, I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its…
- Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for…
- I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in…
- The New York papers have long known that no large question is ever really settled until I have been consulted.
- Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.
- An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and…
- The dreamer's valuation of a thing lost - not another man's - is the only standard to measure it by, and his grief for it…
- Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
- A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it.…
- The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.
- If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise paid over the…
- All large political doctrines are rich in difficult problems - problems that are quite above the average citizen's reach. And that is not strange, since…
- I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious - unless he purposely shut the eyes of…
More Large Quotes
- The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that… — Chinua Achebe
- There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them. — Jane Austen
- The supply of leaks is very large. It's helpful for us to have more people in this industry. It's protective to us. — Julian Assange
- As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters,… — Diane Ackerman
- I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large -… — Julianna Baggott
- There is a large body of abolitionists in Clinton and Clark Counties in this state, and in Wayne County Indiana, that would… — Gamaliel Bailey
- There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells… — James Buchan
- People who hardly ever cook at all, suddenly at the holidays, feel like it's their responsibility to not only cook dinner for… — Ted Allen