Quotes by Mark Twain

Mark Twain

Mark Twain

American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens)

Lived from: 1835 - 1910

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 30 november 1835 Died: 21 april 1910

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  • It is nobler to be good, and it is nobler to teach others to be good - and less trouble!
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  • It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.
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  • It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.
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  • It takes an enemy and a friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart. The one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you.
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  • It takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
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  • It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
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  • It was the schoolboy who said, ''Faith is believing what you know ain't so.''
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  • It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
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  • It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
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  • Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.
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  • Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
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  • Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
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  • Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
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  • Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.
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  • Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.
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  • Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the ''blessing'' of idleness and won for us the ''curse'' of labor.
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  • Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
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  • Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.
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  • Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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  • Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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