Mark Twain

Mark Twain

"When people do not respect us we are sharply offended yet in his private heart no man much respects himself."
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"When people do not respect us we are sharply offended yet in his private heart no man much respects himself."
Mark Twain
"Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms."
Mark Twain
"Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks."
Mark Twain
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
Mark Twain
"What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. All day long, the mill of his brain is grinding, and his thoughts, not those of other things, are his history. These are his life, and they are not written. Everyday would make a whole book of 80,000 words -- 365 books a year. Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written."
Mark Twain
"Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do."
Mark Twain
"When I was younger I could remember anything whether it had happened or not."
Mark Twain
"I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience."
Mark Twain
"I am an old man and have known a great many troubles but most of them never happened."
Mark Twain
"Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do."
Mark Twain
"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug."
Mark Twain
"Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions."
Mark Twain
"Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation."
Mark Twain
"We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stovelid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore."
Mark Twain
"I wish to become rich so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little like those kind-hearted fat benevolent people do."
Mark Twain
"I am opposed to millionaires but it would be dangerous to offer me the position."
Mark Twain
"I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion."
Mark Twain
"There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land again after a cheerful careless voyage."
Mark Twain
"Travel is fatal to prejudice bigotry and narrow-mindedness."
Mark Twain
"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything."
Mark Twain
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