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Returns Quotes by Mark Twain
- Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.
- In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore, in the Old Silurian Period…
- There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
- Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality
- If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise paid over the…
More Returns Quotes
- There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong… — Jean Cocteau
- Kindness comes back like a boomerang to those who are kind. Perhaps, its return takes years. Perhaps, the kindness returns from a… — John Templeton
- He who, conscious of being strong, is content to be weak, he shall be the paragon of mankind. Being the paragon of… — Laozi
- Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back. — Charles Kingsley
- The person giving the advice returns the confidence placed in him with a disinterested eagerness... and he is usually guided only by… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Silence has a regenerative power of its own. It is always sacred. It always returns you home. — Barbara De Angelis
- If the pull of the outside world is strong, there is also a pull towards the human. The cat may disappear on… — Lloyd Alexander
- The course of the line we indicated as forming our grandest terrestrial fold [along the shores of Japan] returns upon itself. It… — Charles Lapworth