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Mark Twain Quotes

«Many when they come to die have spent all the truth that was in them, and enter the next world as paupers. I have saved up enough to make an astonishment there.»
«Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute.»
«They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.»
«It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden»
«No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.»
«The lie, as a virtue, a principle, is eternal; the lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace, the tenth Muse, man's best and surest friend is immortal»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: tenth
«When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: flatter
«The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong. He can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it in a nice and benevolent and affectionate way.»
«There's always a hole in theories somewhere if you look close enough.»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: hole, theories
«The educated Southerner has no use for an 'R', except at the beginning of a word.»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: Southerner