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Mark Twain quotes

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

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Mark Twain quote: "Do the thing you fear the most and the death of fear is certain."
Do the thing you fear the most and the death of fear is certain. Mark Twain
What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. . . . The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. . . . When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world. Mark Twain
Mrs Kerslake:" but if there is no chance of being offered a place at Oxford, surely-?"Simon Kerslake: "Thats not what i said Mother, I shall be an undergraduate at Oxford by the first day of term Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog."
The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "Necessity is the mother of taking chances."
Necessity is the mother of taking chances. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of..."
Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any..."
Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time. Mark Twain
We have reached a little altitude where we may look down upon the Indian Thugs with a complacent shudder; and we may even hope for a day, many centuries hence, when our posterity will look down upon us in the same way. Mark Twain
If a person offends you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures; simply watch your chance, and hit him with a brick. Mark Twain
Wherever he found his speech growing too modern -- which was about every sentence or two -- he ladled in a few such Scriptural phrases as "exceeding sore," "and it came to pass," etc., and made things satisfactory again. "And it came to pass" was his pet. If he had left that out, his Bible would have been only a pamphlet. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education."
Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had..."
His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once. Mark Twain
You see, he was going for the Holy Grail. The boys all took a flier at the Holy Grail now and then. It was a several years' cruise. They always put in the long absence snooping around, in the most conscientious way, though none of them had any idea where the Holy Grail really was, and I don't think any of them actually expected to find it, or would have known what to do with it if he had run across it. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "There have been daring people in the world who claimed that..."
There have been daring people in the world who claimed that Fenimore Cooper could write English, but they are all dead now. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition..."
I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable. Mark Twain

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