Mark Twain quotes

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My father and I were always on the most distant terms when I was a boy--a sort of armed neutrality, so to speak. At irregular inte ...
Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.
A soiled baby, with a neglected nose, cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.
If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty ...
There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.
A man can seldom--very, very, seldom--fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.
In the weltering hell of the Moorooroo plain
The Yatala Wangary withers and dies,
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The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.
We went to Mannheim and attended a shivaree--otherwise an opera--the one called "Lohengrin." The banging and slamming and booming ...
Average American's simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak.
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