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Mark Twain Quotes

Mark Twain quotes

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

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To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph. Mark Twain
..It would ’a’ been a miserable business to have any unfriendliness on the raft; for what you want, above all things, on a raft, is for everybody to be satisfied, and feel right and kind towards the others. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your..."
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's."
The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that..."
Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority. Mark Twain
My experience of men had long ago taught me that one of the surest ways of begetting an enemy was to do some stranger an act of kindness which should lay upon him the irritating sense of an obligation. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the..."
Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "Politicians are like diapers. They need to be changed often..."
Politicians are like diapers. They need to be changed often and for the same reason. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine...."
My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water. Mark Twain
The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when it's all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's just what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it away over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German. from "Disappearance of Literature Mark Twain
when we badly want a thing, we go to hunting for good and righteous reasons for it; we give it that fine name to comfort our consciences, whereas we privately know we are only hunting for plausible ones. Mark Twain
Eventually, I sickened of people, myself included, who didn't think enough of themselves to make something of themselves- people who did only what they had to and never what they could have done. I learned from them the infected loneliness that comes at the end of every misspent day. I knew I could do better. Mark Twain
The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say. Mark Twain
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the..."
The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable. Mark Twain

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