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Letter "M" » Mark Twain Quotes
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«Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it»
«The elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
compress, compressed, compressing, constrain, constrained, constraining, constrains, elastic
«Great enterprises usually promise vastly more than they perform.»
«The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing, it is the thing to watch over and care for and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous. . . .»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
extraneous, loyal, real thing, substantial, The Real Thing
«Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
committee, demagogue, demagogues, rooms, whiskey
«Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.»
«History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is immortal.»
«Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of them.»
«By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
consent, deserved, homage, most-valuable, undeserved
«There it is: it doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on! somebody to hold in light esteem, somebody to be indifferent about.»
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