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"A dog is der Hund the dog; a women is die Frau the wom[an]; a horse is das Pferd, the horse; now you put that dog in the Genitive case, & is he the same dog he was before? No sir; he is das Hundes; put him in the Dative case & what is he? Why, he is dem Hund. Now you snatch him into the accusative case & how is it with him? Why he is den Hunden? ... Read more But suppose he happens to be twins & you have to pluralize him – what then? Why sir they’ll swap that twin dog around thro’ the four cases till he’ll think he’s an entire International Dog Show all in his own person. I don’t like dogs, but I wouldn’t treat a dog like that. I wouldn’t even treat a borrowed dog that way."

Mark Twain

"The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience, & to this day I cherish an unappeased bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of my young life, who not only permitted but compelled me to read an unexpurgated Bible through before I was 15 years old. None can do that and ever draw a clean sweet breath again on this side of the grave."

Mark Twain

"If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much."

Mark Twain

"Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody."

Mark Twain

"The government of my country snubs honest simplicity but fondles artistic villainy, and I think I might have developed into a very capable pickpocket if I had remained in the public service a year or two."

Mark Twain

"The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French."

Mark Twain

"Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising."

Mark Twain

"It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt"

Mark Twain

"The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself."

Mark Twain

"The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the paupers and they who are millionaires."

Mark Twain

"Travel is fatal to narrowmindedness, prejudice and bigotry."

Mark Twain

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness."

Mark Twain

"I went to Maui to stay a week and remained five. I never spent so pleasant a month before, or bade any place goodbye so regretfully. I have not once thought of business, or care or human toil or trouble or sorrow or weariness, and the memory of it will remain with me always."

Mark Twain

"Dates are hard to remember because they consist of figures; figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don't take hold, they form no pictures, and so they give the eye no chance to help. Pictures are the thing. Pictures can make dates stick."

Mark Twain

"During the gold rush its a good time to be in the pick and shovel business"

Mark Twain

"When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy--that it is builded upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them."

Mark Twain

"“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. ”"

Mark Twain

"“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”"

Mark Twain

"“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”"

Mark Twain The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations

"“The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.”"

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