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Plain 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…
- 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…
- But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our…
- Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.
- 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…
- A policeman in plain clothes is a man; in his uniform he is ten. Clothes and title are the most potent thing, the most formidable…
- It is plain that there is one moral law for heaven and another for the earth. The pulpit assures us that wherever we see suffering…
- Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.
- I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the modern way and…
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- To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen… — Jane Austen
- The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience;… — William Hazlitt
- Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
- The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in… — Irving Babbitt
- Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. — Francis Bacon
- How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! — Samuel Adams