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Splendid Quotes by Mark Twain
- What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules &…
- It was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home - you never find that sort of people among…
More Splendid Quotes
- Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave. — Thomas Browne
- We placed the wreaths upon the splendid granite sarcophagus, and at its feet, and felt that only the earthly robe we loved… — Queen Victoria
- Addressing the Columbia crew after winning the intercollegiate regatta: I congratulate you most heartily upon the splendid victory you have won, and… — Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard
- The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method-more daring than anything… — Nicholas Murray Butler
- These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity,… — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
- It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong. — John Cheever
- Allow me to offer my congratulations on the truly admirable skill you have shown in keeping clear of the mark. Not to… — Thomas de Quincey
- I have often thought that the aim of port is to give you a good and durable hangover, so that during the… — George Mikes