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Mark Twain Quotes

Mark Twain quotes

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

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Mark Twain quote: "It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense"
It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense Mark Twain
Huck was always willing to take a hand in any enterprise that offered entertainment and required no capital, for he had a troublesome super-abundance of that sort of time which is not money. Mark Twain
What's your name?" "Becky Thatcher. What's yours? Oh, I know. It's Thomas Sawyer." "That's the name they lick me by. I'm Tom when I'm good. You call me Tom, will you?" "Yes Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "Don't let schooling interfere with your education."
Don't let schooling interfere with your education. Mark Twain
It made one mad, for pleasure; and we could not take our eyes from him, and the looks that went out of our eyes came from our hearts, and their dumb speech was worship. Mark Twain
TOM!"No answer."TOM!"No answer."What's gone with that boy, I wonder? You TOM!"No answer. The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the room; then she put them up and looked out under them. She seldom or never looked THROUGH them for so small a thing as a boy; they were her state pair, the pride of her heart, and were built for "style," not service-- she could have seen through a pair of stove-lids just as well. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere..."
To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass..."
I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel they have not said enough. Mark Twain
In another moment he was flying down the street with his pail and a tingling rear, Tom was whitewashing with vigor, and Aunt Polly was retiring from the field with a slipper in her hand and triumph in her eye. Mark Twain
When you want genuine music -- music that will come right home to you like a bad quarter, suffuse your system like strychnine whisky, go right through you like Brandreth's pills, ramify your whole constitution like the measles, and break out on your hide like the pin-feather pimples on a picked goose, -- when you want all this, just smash your piano, and invoke the glory-beaming banjo! Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "I did not steal your paltry goods!"
I did not steal your paltry goods! Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while..."
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "Their very imagination was dead. When you can say that of a..."
Their very imagination was dead. When you can say that of a man he has struck bottom... there is no lower deep for him. Mark Twain
One poor chap, who had no other grandeur to offer, said with tolerably manifest pride in the remembrance: 'Well, Tom Sawyer he licked me once.' But that bid for glory was a failure. Most of the boys could say that, and so that cheapened the distinction too much." ~From The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Scene where the neighbor boys were lamenting over Tom's apparent drowning. Mark Twain
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. Mark Twain

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