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New Quotes by Mark Twain
- New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug…
- A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains,…
- Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. You cannot…
- He had an uncommon fondness for cats. As an old man summering in New Hampshire, Twain even rented kittens from a nearby farm to keep…
- I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I…
- A marriage. . .will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a…
- 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…
- Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use…
- A marriage...makes of two fractional lives a whole; it gives to two purposeless lives a work, and doubles the strength of each to perform it;…
- A sin takes on a new and real terror when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out.
- The New York papers have long known that no large question is ever really settled until I have been consulted.
- My first American ancestor, gentlemen, was an Indian-an early Indian. Your ancestors skinned him alive, and I am an orphan. All those Salem witches were…
- There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a…
- It now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one...the Descent of Man from…
- One of the brightest gems in the New England weather is the dazzling uncertainty of it.
- There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental…
- Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.
- Would it not be prudent to get our civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in the way of Glass…
- It has been said that a Scotchman has not seen the world until he has seen Edinburgh; and I think that I may say that…
- An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans.
- I am trying to get the hang of this new fangled writing machine, but I am not making a shining success of it. However, this…
- It{California} is the land where the fabled Aladdin's Lamp lies buried-and she {San Francisco} is the new Aladdin who shall seize it from its obscurity…
- Each season brings a world of enjoyment and interest in the watching of its unfolding, its gradual harmonious development, its culminating graces-and just as one…
- If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is.
- Missionarying was a better thing in those days than it is in ours. All you had to do was to cure the head savage´s sick…
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- Research is creating new knowledge. — Neil Armstrong
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- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
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- I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when… — Margaret Atwood
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