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Mark Twain Quotes

«I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.»
«Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: pathetic
«Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.»
«Conformity-the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority»
«I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.»
«Poetry, like chastity, can be carried to far»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Poetry | Keywords: chastity
«Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Speech | Keywords: eloquence
«What a lie it is to call this a free country, where none but the unworthy and undeserving may swear.»
«My advice to girls: first, don't smoke to excess; second, don't drink to excess; third, don't marry to excess.»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: excess
«At fifty a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: ass, fifty, optimist