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«I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.»
«Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Country
| Keywords:
denial, Egypt, river, River of Egypt
«We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance - and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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association, bonds, chains, circumstance, convention, custom, environment, free association, go in, in chains, in vain, strongest, struggle, The Association, the Convention, the conventions, training, vain
«Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
acquaintance, blood relation, choke, choke up, distant, fumble, fumbles, fumbling, handkerchief, handkerchiefs, intimate, relation, sigh, sob, sobbed, sobbing, sobs, stranger, sympathetically
«I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
confine, confining, expressing, facts, opinions, themselves
«A mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart - a heart so large that everybody's grief and everybody's joy found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
accommodation, accommodations, hospitable, slender, welcome
«There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Speech
| Keywords:
apparatus, convictions, debauch, debauched, debauching, Delusions, fuddle, oratory, persuasive, practiced, The Mental, tricks, upset
«It is a pity that we cannot escape from life when we are young.»
«Don't let schooling interfere with your education.»
«What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows / it must grow; nothing can prevent it.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
atom, physical structure, prevent, rigorous, smallest, stand still, structure
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