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Really Quotes by Mark Twain
- The New York papers have long known that no large question is ever really settled until I have been consulted.
- Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. That is where the true evil lies.
- The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all.
- What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of…
- A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.
- One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a really beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her; and the rule applies to Niagara Falls,…
- Crowds stand around all day long and criticise that bridge, and find fault with it, and tell with unlimited frankness how it ought to have…
- It was the most earnest ambition I ever had....Not that I ever really wanted to be a preacher, but because it never occurred to me…
- The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
- Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too,…
- What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. . .…
- Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.
- Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them—and by laughing at them destroy them? For…
- If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.
- The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically…
- The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it.
- One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a women is, until after considerable acquaintance with her.
- Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too…
- Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have…
- Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.
- It is human life. We are blown upon the world; we float buoyantly upon the summer air a little while, complacently showing off our grace…
- Manifestly, dying is nothing to a really great and brave man.
- I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years…
- Life was a fairy-tale, then, it is a tragedy now. When I was 43 and John Hay 41 he said life was a tragedy after…
- The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
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