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Letter "M" » Mark Twain Quotes
«I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct - nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying.»
«Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood is what you were intended for.»
«I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.»
«When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know who have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.»
«Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.»
«I am different from Washington. I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't.»
«There is no such thing as ''the Queen's English'.' The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
joint-stock company, joint, shares, stock company, the Queen
«Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
duties, forgetting, inconvenient, rigid, stern
«I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run; because a half-massacred Indian may recover, but if you educate him and wash him, it is bound to finish him some time or other.»
«Arguments have no chance against petrified training; they wear it as little as the waves wear a cliff.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
cliff, cliffs, petrified, petrifies, petrifying, waves
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