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Minutes Quotes by Mark Twain
- Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography that exists in…
- I never could do anything with figures, never had any talent for mathematics, never accomplished anything in my efforts at that rugged study, and to-day…
- Do not undervalue the headache. While it is at its sharpest it seems a bad investment; but when relief begins, the unexpired remainder is worth…
- The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right.
- No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
- A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
- He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
- If you want me to give you a two-hour presentation, I am ready today. If you want only a five-minute speech, it will take me…
- If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes.
- Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations, and resentments flit…
- Few sinners are saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon
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