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«If you have nothing to say, say nothing.»
«Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.»
«The Ganges front is the supreme showplace of Benares. Its tall bluffs are solidly caked from water to summit, along a stretch of three miles, with a splendid jumble of massive and picturesque masonry, a bewildering and beautiful confusion of stone platforms, temples, stair flights, rich and stately palaces....soaring stairways, sculptured temples, majestic palaces, softening away into the distances; and there is movement, motion, human life everywhere, and brilliantly costumed - streaming in rainbows up and down the lofty stairways, and massed in metaphorical gardens on the mile of great platforms at the river's edge.»
«Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.»
«The waves most washed me off the raft sometimes, but I hadn't any clothes on, and didn't mind.»
«You see, he was going for the Holy Grail. The boys all took a flier at the Holy Grail now and then. It was a several years' cruise. They always put in the long absence snooping around, in the most conscientious way, though none of them had any idea where the Holy Grail really was, and I don't think any of them actually expected to find it, or would have known what to do with it if he had run across it.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
cruise, flier, grail, Holy Grail, put across, run across, snoop, The Boys
«. . . a man must not hold himself aloof from the things which his friends and his community have at heart if he would be liked . . .»
«Old habit of mind is one of the toughest things to get away from in the world. It transmits itself like physical form and feature . . .»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
feature, get away, physical thing, physical world, toughest, transmits
«The average man don't like trouble and danger.»
«You may have noticed that the less I know about a subject the more confidence I have, and the more new light I throw on it.»
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