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Letter "M" » Mark Twain Quotes
«Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Law and lawyers,
Politics
| Keywords:
execution, policeman, The Republic, unofficial, unsalaried, ward
«There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can»
«He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it- namely, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain»
«He saw nearly all things as through a glass eye, darkly»
«The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Poetry
| Keywords:
anticipation, in reality
«I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer»
«The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next»
«When a man's dog turns against him it is time for a wife to pack her trunk and go home to mama»
«The system of refusing the mere act of drinking and leaving the desire in full force, is unintelligent war tactics, it seems to me»
«The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.»
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