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Thing Quotes by Mark Twain
- A sense of humor is the one thing no one will admit to not having.
- It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's.
- After a few months' acquaintance with European 'coffee' one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage…
- Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.
- Well, no doubt it's a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed.
- The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable.
- Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of…
- If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging? Framed in a more positive light, this tells…
- That is the way of the scientist. He will spend thirty years in building up a mountain range of facts with the intent to prove…
- Jesus died to save men - a small thing for an immortal to do - and didn't save many, anyway. But if he had been…
- Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is…
- Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more restful.
- But in this country we have one great privilege which they don't have in other countries. When a thing gets to be absolutely unbearable the…
- Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something to eat. The…
- The Church worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies of witches, and…
- A man's house burns down. The smoking wreckage represents only a ruined home that was dear through years of use and pleasant associations. By and…
- There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the…
- Happiness ain't a thing in itself -it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and…
- A soiled baby with a neglected nose cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.
- Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep in the gutter.…
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