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«Rise early. It is the early bird that catches the worm. Don't be fooled by this absurd saw; I once knew a man who tried it. He got up at sunrise and a horse bit him.»
«Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil»
«He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person»
«Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day, like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Football,
Truth
| Keywords:
bubble, nay, touch football
«When I was a boy on the Mississippi River there was a proposition in a township there to discontinue public schools because they were too expensive. An old farmer spoke up and said if they stopped building the schools they would not save anything, because every time a school was closed a jail had to be built.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
discontinue, discontinued, farmer, jail, Mississippi, Mississippi River, old school, proposition, public schools, spoke, township
«The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession, what there is of it»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
brotherhood, Brotherhood Of Man, possession, universal
«We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Safety
| Keywords:
chameleon, chameleons, facility, partialities, partiality, wonted
«It will start in here in November and rain about four, and sometimes as much as seven days on a stretch; after that, you may loan out your umbrella for twelve months, with the serene confidence which a Christian feels in four aces»
«July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
fourth, Fourth of July, inadequate, in stock, July, July 4, one-fourth, On This Day, PER, per year, proves, put together, stock
«Conscience, man's moral medicine chest»
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