Mark Twain Quotes
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Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that that is what it was done for. I suppose it is, I dunno. If the Eiffel Tower were now representing the world's age, the skin of paint on the pinnacle-knob at its summit would represent man's share of that age; and anybody would perceive that the skin was what the tower was built for. I reckon they would, I dunno.
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Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
[Modesty]
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Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
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Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.
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Modesty died when false modesty was born.
[Modesty]
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Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.
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My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
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My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
[Luck]
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Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.
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Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
[Adversity]
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Never let your schooling interfere with your education.
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Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
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Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes time and annoys the pig.
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No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
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Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
[Eloquence]
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None but the dead have free speech.
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Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant, and if it can be baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary, it dies happy.
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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
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