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Letter "M" » Mark Twain Quotes
«The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
ambitions, capacities, Happy ending, possessions, proportion, The Happy Ending, virtuous
«You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Imagination,
Judgement
| Keywords:
depend, depend on, focus, imagination, judgment, out of focus
«Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.»
«We have an insanity plea that would have saved Cain»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
Cain, insanity, insanity plea, plea, saved
«I can't do literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
around, defendant, defendants, lawsuit, lawsuits, literary, literary work, looking, meditated, meditating, rest, this year, year
«Chastity - you can carry it too far»
«To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else - these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other cheap and trivial»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Action,
Pleasure
| Keywords:
cheap, commonplace, commonplaces, compared, confer, conferring, confer with, pleasures, say something, tame, tamer, tames, tamest, taming, trivial
«The way it is now, the asylums can hold all the sane people but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials»
«To eat is human, to digest, divine»
«Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.»
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