Quotes by Mark Twain

Mark Twain

American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens)

Lived from: 1835 - 1910

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: United States

Born: 30 november 1835 Died: 21 april 1910

Quotes 381 till 384 of 384.

• You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your friends.

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• You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.

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• Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

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• Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

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Subjects in these quotes:

• intellectual
• dissipation
• necessary
• pleasure
• highest
• avoided

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