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Over Quotes by Mark Twain
- Man is a marvelous curiosity...he thinks he is the Creator's pet...he even believes the Creator loves him; has passion for him; sits up nights to…
- When there was room on the ledge outside of the pots and boxes for a cat, the cat was there- in sunny weather- stretched at…
- The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders are readers. However…
- Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity. He could have…
- If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty.…
- Well, my book is written-let it go. But if it were only to write over again there wouldn't be so many things left out. They…
- Well - Patriotism has its laws. And it also is a perfectly definite one, there are not vaguenesses about it. It commands that the brother…
- By reading keep in a state of excited igorance, like a blind man in a house afire; flounder around, immensely but unintelligently interested; don't know…
- Happiness ain't a thing in itself -it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and…
- And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in the private interest…
- Those who do not read have no advantage over those who cannot read.
- Whenever he was out of luck and a little down-hearted, he would fall to mourning over the loss of a wonderful cat he used to…
- You can't make a life over. Society wouldn't let you if you would.
- Suppose . . . burglars had made entry into this . . . [library]. Picture them seated here on this floor, pouring the light of…
- Unused talents gives you no advantage over someone who has no talent at all.
- He wa'n't no common dog, he wa'n't no mongrel; he was a composite. A composite dog is a dog that is made up of all…
- Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution.
- That cat will write her autograph all over your leg if you let her.
- 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…
- There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.
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