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Often Quotes by Mark Twain
- It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.
- Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature!
- It is often the case that a man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one.
- I have criticized absent people so often, and then discovered, to my humiliation, that I was talking with their relatives, that I have grown superstitious…
- You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know the laws: by words, not by effects. They take a meaning,…
- Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period.
- ...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting.
- Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with…
- ... an experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite often picturesque liar.
- Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
- Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
- Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
- I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but…
- How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with…
- The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever…
- Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.
- We catched fish, and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the…
- I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.
- A religion that comes of thought, and study, and deliberate conviction, sticks best. The revivalized convert who is scared in the direction of heaven because…
- Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.
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