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Off Quotes by Mark Twain
- We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands of sharply-contrasted colors: great stretches…
- Throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
- 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…
- Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them.
- 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…
- It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off.
- The waves most washed me off the raft sometimes, but I hadn't any clothes on, and didn't mind.
- But in this country we have one great privilege which they don't have in other countries. When a thing gets to be absolutely unbearable the…
- 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…
- Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep in the gutter.…
- I'm merely running some errands. This is now off the record.
- In this age of inventive wonders all men have come to believe that in some genius' brain sleeps the solution of the grand problem of…
- The average American may not know who his grandfather was. But the American was, however, one degree better off than the average Frenchman who, as…
- Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant; and if it can be baked in a cake and…
- Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. All you need in…
- Next you'd see a raft sliding by, away off yonder, and maybe a galoot on it chopping. . . you'd see the ax flash and…
- If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is.
- Preachers are always pleasant company when they are off duty.
- 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…
- I am living a new and exalted life of late. It steeps me in a sacred rapture to see a portrait develop and take soul…
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