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Likely Quotes by Mark Twain
- Grown people everywhere are always likely to cling to the religion they were brought up in.
- War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the…
- In Austria an editor who can write well is valuable, but he is not likely to remain so unless he can handle a sabre with…
- ...the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person that hadn't, and…
- I never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical organization. It is…
- When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.
- A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will always be helpful. He isn't likely to grow dim or doubtful.…
- It is not in the least likely that any life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret judgment of the…
- A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps…
- When the Lord finished the world, he pronounced it good. That is what I said about my first work, too. But Time, I tell you,…
- 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…
- Heroine: Girl in a book who is saved from drowning by a hero and marries him next week, but if it was to be over…
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