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«What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery! To know that you are walking where none others have walked»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
breast, bring to, conferring, confers, confer with, delight, discovery, noblest, pride, swelled, swells, swell up, swollen, walked, walking, with pride
«If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him.»
«Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
Austen, fairly, Jane, Jane Austen, omission, omissions
«I have witnessed and greatly enjoyed the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that one act was quite sufficient; whenever I have witnessed two acts I have gone away physically exhausted; and whenever I have ventured an entire opera the result has been the next thing to suicide.»
«Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.»
«Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. By Order of the Author»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Morality
| Keywords:
attempting, author, banished, banishes, banishing, motive, narrative, narratives, Order of, plot, plotting, prosecute, prosecuted, prosecuting, shot, The Author
«We can't reach old age by another man's road. My habits protect my life but they would assassinate you.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
assassinate, assassinated, assassinating, Old Road
«Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Affection,
Caring,
Doing Your Best,
Love,
Mankind
| Keywords:
envied
«Citizenship is what makes a republic; monarchies can get along without it»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Citizenship
| Keywords:
citizenship, get along, monarchies, republic, The monarchy
«She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.»
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