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Very Quotes by Mark Twain
- Most people can't bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for…
- We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands of sharply-contrasted colors: great stretches…
- The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for one…
- We have to keep our God placated with prayer, and even then we are never sure of him-how much higher and finer is the Indian's…
- 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…
- Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.
- 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.…
- Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
- I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when…
- History has tried hard to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians. Now, to go and stick one at the very head…
- Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking every prison lock…
- The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.
- A great, great deal has been said about the weather, but very little has ever been done.
- Heaven is the very last place to come to rest and don't you be afraid to bet on that!
- You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know the laws: by words, not by effects. They take a meaning,…
- Sagebrush is a very fair fuel, but as a vegetable it is a distinguished failure. Nothing can abide the taste of it but the jackass…
- That reminds me to remark, in passing, that the very first official thing I did, in my administration-and it was on the first day of…
- You want to be very careful about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught.
- My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.
- The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds of America. They…
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