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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: "Distance lends enchantment to the view."
Distance lends enchantment to the view. Mark Twain
After Huck writes a letter confessing his "sin", intending to hand-in Jim with it;"All right, then, I'll GO to hell" -- and tore it up. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only..."
in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and..."
A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher..."
In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "A sound heart is a surer guide than an ill-trained conscience."
A sound heart is a surer guide than an ill-trained conscience. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way."
I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way. Mark Twain
I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to..."
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket."
Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket. Mark Twain
In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "a fully belly is little worth where the mind is starved."
a fully belly is little worth where the mind is starved. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits."
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Mark Twain
Mark Twain quote: "Just because you’re taught that something’s right and everyone..."
Just because you’re taught that something’s right and everyone believes it’s right, it don’t make it right. Mark Twain
The Southern heart is too impulsive; Southern hospitality is too lavish with the stranger.- "The Spirit of Tennessee Journalism Mark Twain

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