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Mark Twain Quotes

«There is no use in walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.»
«The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.»
«Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.»
«I am a border ruffian from the State of Missouri,I am a Connecticut Yankee by adoption.In me you have Missouri morals,Connecticut culture;this gentlemaen,is the combination which makes the perfect man»
«All scenery in California requires distance to give it its highest charm.»
«As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and. . . Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.»
«At bottom he [Carlyle] was probably fond of them [the Americans], but he was always able to conceal it.»
«What is there in Rome for me to see that others have not seen before me? What is there for me to touch that others have not touched? What is there for me to feel, to learn, to hear, to know, that shall thrill me before it pass to others?»
«A coin, sleeve button, or a collar button dropped in a bedroom will hide itself and be hard to find. A handkerchief in bed 'can't' be found.»
«A group of men in evening clothes looks like a flock of crows, and is just about as inspiring.»