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Mark Twain Quotes
«A man can seldom -- very, very, seldom -- fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
Against All Odds, heavy, odds, training, winning
«Heroine: Girl in a book who is saved from drowning by a hero and marries him next week, but if it was to be over again ten years later it is likely she would rather have a life-belt and he would rather have her have it»
«Let us guess that whenever we read a sentence and like it, we unconsciously store it away in our model-chamber; and it goes, with the myriad of its fellows, to the building, brick by brick, of the eventual edifice which we call our style»
«A conspiracy is nothing but a secret agreement of a number of men for the pursuance of policies which they dare not admit in public»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
agreement, conspiracy, in public, policies, public policy, pursuance
«Wit and Humor -- if any difference, it is in duration -- lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage -- the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
apparently, damage, duration, elaboration, electric, electric light, enjoys, lightning, vivid
«When the human race has once acquired a superstition nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
acquired, human race, likely, other race, race, remove, remove it, short, superstition
«There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
comedies, comedy, drama, dramas, dullest, exterior, impossibility, There was, tragedy, uninteresting
«Perseverance is a principle that should be commendable in those who have judgment to govern it»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Perseverance
| Keywords:
commendable, govern
«Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Ethics
| Keywords:
acquirement, acquirements, foreign, foreign language, foreign languages, morals, paralysis, piety, poker, pokers