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Last Quotes by Mark Twain
- When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how…
- Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days…
- ...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…
- I would not read the proof of one of my books for any fair & reasonable sum whatever, if I could get out of it.…
- Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised…
- If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement…
- I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out differently
- It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago-she outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make them. She is…
- 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…
- Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.
- A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.
- Heaven is the very last place to come to rest and don't you be afraid to bet on that!
- Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish…
- Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others-his last breath.
- A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages over…
- She remained both girl and woman to the last day of her life. Under a grave and gentle exterior burned inextinguishable fires of sympathy, energy,…
- The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime,…
- whenever the literary german dives into a sentence, this is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other…
- Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds.
- A distinguished man should be as particular about his last words as he is about his last breath. He should write them out on a…
- There was no place in the land where the seeker could not find some small budding sign of pity for the slave. No place in…
- The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy with the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
- I had longed to be a butterfly, and I was one at last. I attended private parties in sumptuous evening dress, simpered and aired my…
- The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole life…
- For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian and German political degradations which would envelop the globe and steep it in…
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