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Stand Quotes by Mark Twain
- We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast…
- Few of us stand prosperity; another man's I mean.
- 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 have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed I know it. I can…
- One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself
- A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand.
- I told that girl, in the kindest, gentlest way, that I could not consent to deliver judgment upon any one's manuscript, because an individual's verdict…
- Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for…
- Only laughter can blow [a colossal humbug] to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
- What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year.…
- 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…
- The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse…
- Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
- But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of therest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me,…
- 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…
- 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…
- There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the…
- 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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