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Letter "M" » Mark Twain Quotes
«Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is not advice, it is merely custom.»
«There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it»
«A thoroughly beautiful woman and a thoroughly homely woman are creations which I love to gaze upon, and which I cannot tire of gazing upon, for each is perfect in her own line»
«A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime»
«It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Speech
| Keywords:
each week, impromptu, prepare, speech, This Week, Three Weeks, usually, weeks, week after week
«You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear»
«I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.»
«My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
a great deal, deal, dealt out, deal out, enjoyed, great, great deal, Great Mother, had, How To Deal, mother, mothering, She, The Deal, trouble
«Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Fortune
| Keywords:
cases, fortune, Good Neighbors, knocks, neighboring, saloon, saloons, The Good Neighbor
«The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Optimism,
Pessimism
| Keywords:
eight, forty, Forty eight, optimist, pessimist, too little
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