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Mark Twain quotes

American Author, Writer November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910

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Mark Twain quote: "A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is..."
A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it. Mark Twain
I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run; because a half-massacred Indian may recover, but if you educate him and wash him, it is bound to finish him some time or other. Mark Twain
And when he awoke in the morning and looked upon the wretchedness about him, his dream had had its usual effect: it had intensified the sordidness of his surroundings a thousandfold. Mark Twain
Mary Jane she set at the head of the table, with Susan alongside of her, and said how bad the biscuits was, and how mean the preserves was, and how ornery and tough the fried chickens was—and all that kind of rot, the way women always do for to force out compliments; and the people all knowed everything was tiptop, and said so—said 'How do you get biscuits to brown so nice?' and 'Where, for the land's sake, did you get these amaz'n pickles?' and all that kind of humbug talky-talk, just the... Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "When a man's dog turns against him it is time for a wife to..."
When a man's dog turns against him it is time for a wife to pack her trunk and go home to mama. Mark Twain
So I learned then, that gold in it's native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and that only low-born metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an ostentatious glitter. However, like the rest of the world, I still go underrating men of gold and glorifying men of mica. Commonplace human nature cannot rise above that. Mark Twain
Then at once they reached and hovered upon the imminent verge of sleep - but an intruder came, now, that would not "down". It was conscience. They began to feel a vague fear that they had been doing wrong to run away; and next they thought of the stolen meat, and then the real torture came [...] So they inwardly resolved that so long as they remained in the business, their piracies should not again be sullied with the crime of stealing. Then conscience granted a truce, and these curiously... Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation."
The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God..."
Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a..."
It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long..."
I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "You cannot trust your eyes, if your imagination is out of focus."
You cannot trust your eyes, if your imagination is out of focus. Mark Twain
Now the way that the book winds up is this: Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the cave, and it made us rich. We got six thousand dollars apiece—all gold. It was an awful sight of money when it was piled up. Well, Judge Thatcher he took it and put it out at interest, and it fetched us a dollar a day apiece all the year round— more than a body could tell what to do with. The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the... Mark Twain
How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good. Mark Twain
One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning. Mark Twain

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