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-zoe-
06-Aug-08, 08:40
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 Mark Twain's quotes |
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More Twain quotes
"Work is a necessary evil to be avoided."
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On Anger
"When angry count four; when very angry, swear."
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Inventors
Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
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Denial
Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
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Hell
"All right, then I'll go to hell."
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Chastity
"Chastity, you can carry it too far"
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coopershawk
27-Aug-09, 12:43
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Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses
"There have been daring people in the world who claimed that Cooper could write English, but
they are all dead now ---"
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tell the truth
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
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Honesty
Honesty is the best policy-when there is money in it.
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education
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
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The truth
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy f it.
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gloopy293
07-May-11, 16:20
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Golf.
Mark Twain said that a round of golf was a good walk spoiled.
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Age
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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Heaven and Hell
Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
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Advice On Writing
"God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. These are God's adjectives. You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by." —Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), Letter to Orion Clemens, 3/23/1878
"As to the Adjective: When in doubt, strike it out." —Mark Twain's, Pudd'nhead Wilson.
www.twainquotes.com
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"At the age of 18 I knew my father was an idiot. At the age of 21 I was surprised at how much he'd learned in three years!"
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"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."
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kewois
18-Sep-16, 07:04
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Deleted by kewois on 18-Sep-16, 07:04.
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Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
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"Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress;
but I repeat myself."
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Any emotion, if is sincere, is involuntary.
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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
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"All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live."
"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
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There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.
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Laughter
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
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“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
Let him say that again.
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
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Humor
Humor is mankind 's greatest blessings.
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All right , then, I'll go to hell.
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My death
The report of my death
was an exaggeration.
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