Mark Twain Quotes

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Mark Twain

Profession : Writer

Birth : November 30, 1835

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

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I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.

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The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

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Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.

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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 is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

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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.

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Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man's, I mean.

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A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

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Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

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The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word.

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No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

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The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

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Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.

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Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.

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We are all alike, on the inside.

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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.

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Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

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Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

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I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

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