Tag: Mark Twain
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My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
Mark Twain
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But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
Mark Twain
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The educated Southerner has no use for an ‘r’, except at the beginning of a word.
Mark Twain
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The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
Mark Twain
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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Mark Twain
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There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
Mark Twain
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It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us – dreamers and indolent… It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich – these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.
Mark Twain
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Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
Mark Twain
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The Public is merely a multiplied ‘me.’
Mark Twain
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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Mark Twain