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Word Quotes by Mark Twain
- Irrevence is another person's disrespect to your god; there isn't any word that tells what your disrespect to his god is.
- The spirit of Christianity proclaims the brotherhood of the race and the meaning of that strong word has not been left to guesswork, but made…
- Word it as softly as you please, the spirit of patriotism is the spirit of the dog and wolf. The moment there is a misunderstanding…
- I respect a man who knows how to spell a word more than one way.
- How charmed I am when I overhear a German word which I understand!
- You should never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word.
- In all the ages the Roman Church has owned slaves, bought and sold slaves, authorized and encouraged her children to trade in them. . .…
- A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect…
- Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.
- The unspoken word is capital. We can invest it or we can squander it.
- That is an editor. He is trying to think of a word. He props his feet on a chair, which is the editor's way; then…
- Talking of patriotism, what humbug it is; it is a word which always commemorates a robbery.
- An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and…
- I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
- The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
- The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
- The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word.
- If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word…
- Man has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights...sexual intercourse!...His heaven is like himself: strange, interesting,…
- Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real…
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- The Imitation of Christ is a cherished treasure of the Christian world. This great book was written by a Roman Catholic monk.… — Swami Vivekananda