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Paper Quotes by Mark Twain
- Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one…
- The New York papers have long known that no large question is ever really settled until I have been consulted.
- Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to keep them from setting me…
- I have been reading the morning paper. I do it every morning-knowing well that I shall find in it the usual depravities and basenesses and…
- If you will notice, there is seldom a telegram in a paper which fails to show up one or more members & beneficiaries of our…
- That is a society editor, sitting there elegantly dressed, with his legs crossed in that indolent way, observing the clothes the ladies wear, so that…
- 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…
- To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the…
- A distinguished man should be as particular about his last words as he is about his last breath. He should write them out on a…
- English humor is hard to appreciate, though, unless you are trained to it. The English papers, in reporting my speeches, always put 'laughter' in the…
- Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on…
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- My dad was an architect, and he wasn't a rich guy, but in our little world in Philadelphia, he was famous. He… — Kevin Bacon
- If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh. — Lord Acton
- What the world really needs is more love and less paper work. — Pearl Bailey
- Ever since I was a girl, I have written about one to five pages every day - on napkins, on scrap paper,… — Roseanne Barr
- The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress… — Brendan Behan