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Use Quotes by Mark Twain
- New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug…
- In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather…
- All my life I have been honest-comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly-I could only lend it.
- Medicine has made all its progress during the past fifty years. ... How many operations that are now in use were known fifty years ago?-they…
- When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. I scratch…
- Many people have the reasoning facility, but no one uses it in religious matters.
- The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetics in childbirth…
- We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have…
- It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off.
- Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use…
- Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.
- It is not best to use our morals weekdays, it gets them out of repair for Sunday.
- 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…
- Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to good use.
- 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…
- We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. We have two opinions: one private,…
- I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes.
- Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.
- You may say a cat uses good grammar. Well, a cat does -- but you let a cat get excited once; you let a cat…
- Truth is such a precious article - let us all economize in its use.
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