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«We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.»
«God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
God,
Marriage
| Keywords:
cosmic, human race, joke, living together, race, requiring
«The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor»
«The Bible is a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Christianity
| Keywords:
fables, mythology, Traditions
«We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess»
«All say, how hard it is that we have to die - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
complaint, die hard, How Hard It Is, mouths
«In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
attended, confine, confining, inconvenience, inconvenienced, in writing, strictly
«A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Approval,
Satisfaction
| Keywords:
approval, comfortable, His, own, with approval
«Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.»
«Sacred cows make the best hamburger»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Food,
Funny
| Keywords:
cows, hamburger, hamburgers, sacred, sacred cow
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