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Seven Quotes by Mark Twain
- When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how…
- When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was…
- I never could do anything with figures, never had any talent for mathematics, never accomplished anything in my efforts at that rugged study, and to-day…
- I never write "metropolis" for seven cents when I can write "city" and get paid the same.
- The spirit of Christianity proclaims the brotherhood of the race and the meaning of that strong word has not been left to guesswork, but made…
- I was armed to the teeth with a pitiful little Smith & Wesson's seven-shooter, which carried a ball like a homopathic pill, and it took…
- I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the…
- 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…
- The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in woman's construction, is this: There shall be no limit put upon your intercourse with the other…
- An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and…
- It is easier to manufacture seven facts out of whole cloth than one emotion.
- When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I…
- Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorites, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines. To save his life…
- When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I…
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