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Letter "M" » Mark Twain Quotes
«Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of a man - the biography of the man himself cannot be written»
«Anybody can write the first line of a poem, but is a very difficult task to make the second line rhyme with the first»
«In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Boston,
New York
| Keywords:
Boston, Philadelphia
«Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be obeyed by all - and will be»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Circumstances
| Keywords:
by laws, circumstance, decrees, obeyed, policies, regardless
«The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice»
«The trouble with you Chicago people is that you think you are the best people down here, whereas you are merely the most numerous.»
«Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant, and if it can be baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary, it dies happy.»
«No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
gentleman, ladies, naked, presence, real presence
«The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Literature,
Music
| Keywords:
critic, degraded, drama, drama critic, trade, trades
«There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular is providence»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Sin
| Keywords:
More popular than, most popular, popular, popular with, providence, scapegoat, scapegoats, sins
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