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Turn Quotes by Mark Twain
- Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it
- Very well, then, where do we arrive? Where do we arrive with our respect, our homage, our filial affection? At Adam! At Adam, every time.…
- That optimist of yours is always ready to turn hell's backyard into a play-ground.
- If you invent two or three people and turn them loose in your manuscript, something is bound to happen to them -- you can't help…
- There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a…
- This is the fairest picture on our planet, the most enchanting to look upon, the most satisfying to the eye and spirit. To see the…
- There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate…
- To one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, seems the loveliest.
- You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is…
- Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric…
- [Patriotism] ...is a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn't a foot of land in the world which doesn't represent the ousting and re-ousting…
- We must annex those people. We can afflict them with our wise and beneficent government. We can introduce the novelty of thieves, all the way…
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