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Mark Twain Quotes
«The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a privileged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Slavery
| Keywords:
aristocracy, Band of, blunting, concede, conceded, concedes, conceding, perceptions, privileged, slaveholder, slaveholders
«When it comes down to pure ornamental cursing, the native American is gifted above the sons of men.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
cursing, gifted, native, Native American, ornamental, Sons of
«Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on ''The Survival of the Fittest.'' These are illustrious names, this is a mighty doctrine: nothing can ever remove it from its firm base, nothing dissolve it, but evolution.»
«Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Pain,
Revenge
| Keywords:
anticipation, Big Lie, defect, therein
«Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.»
«The old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying such a laugh was money in a man's pocket because it cut down the doctor's bills like anything»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
anatomies, anatomy, bills, cut down, details, ended, joyously, laughed, loud, old man, pocket, pocket money, shook, The Doctor, The old man
«A most moving and pulse-stirring honor - the heartfelt grope of the hand, and the welcome that does not descend from the pale, gray matter of the brain but rushes up with the red blood of the heart»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
descend, gray matter, grope, grope for, groping, heartfelt, pulse, red-blooded, rushes, the pale