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Mark Twain quotes

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

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Man is made of dirt - I saw him made. I am not made of dirt. Man is a museum of diseases, a home of impurities; he comes to-day and is gone tomorrow; he begins as dirt and departs as stench; I am of the aristocracy of the Imperishables. And man has the Moral Sense. You understand? He has the Moral Sense. That would seem to be difference enough between us, all by itself."I know your race. It is made up of sheep. It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its... Mark Twain
This book is merely a personal narrative, and not a pretentious history or a philosophical dissertation. It is a record of several years of variegated vagabondizing, and it's object is rather to help the resting reader while away an idle hour than afflict him with metaphysics, or goad him with science. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played..."
It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive. Mark Twain
Then she told me all about the bad place, and I said I wished I was there. She got mad, then, but I didn't mean no harm. All I wanted was to go somewheres; all I wanted was a change, I warn't particular. Mark Twain
I believe our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey. I believe that whenever a human being, of even the highest intelligence and culture, delivers an opinion upon a matter apart from his particular and especial line of interest, training and experience, it will always be an opinion of so foolish and so valueless a sort that it can be depended upon to suggest our Heavenly Father that the human being is another disappointment and that he is no considerable... Mark Twain
Each time in fiction or in history I meet a well-defined personality I am personally interested in him, for we know each other already, because we met on the river. Mark Twain
I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightening..."
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightening that does the work. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning..."
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work. Mark Twain
Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done. Mark Twain
When I got there it was all still and Sunday-like, and hot and sunshiny - the hands was gone to the fields; and there was them kind of faint dronings of bugs an flies in the air that makes it seem so lonesome and like everybody's dead and gone; and if a breeze fans along and quivers the leaves, it makes you feel mournful, because you feel like it's spirits whispering - spirits that's been dead ever so many years - and you always think they're talking about you. Mark Twain
The truth is, a person's memory has no more sense that his conscience, and no appreciation whatever of values and proportions. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from..."
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "If books are not good company, where shall I find it?"
If books are not good company, where shall I find it? Mark Twain
The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell together, as quickly as possible. Mark Twain

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