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Letter "M" » Mark Twain Quotes
«I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics»
«Spirit has fifty times the strength and staying-power of brawn and muscle»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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«The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
death, exaggerated, exaggerates, exaggerating, greatly, reports, report it
«What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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Adam, Adam the, before, better known, Good Thing, had, knew, nobody, said
«If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.»
«Familiarity breeds contempt - and children»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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All My Children, breeds, children, contempt, familiarity
«If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.»
«It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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«Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
majorities, majority, on the side, pause, paused, pausing, reflect, side
«There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought --a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
earthly, earthly life, eternities, forlorn, grotesque, grotesques, homeless, no Hell, vagrant, vagrants, wandering
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