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Mark Twain Quotes

«Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the 'blessing'' of idleness and won for us the ''curse'' of labor.»
«The new political gospel: Public office is private graft»
«There are women who have an indefinable charm in their faces which makes them beautiful to their intimates, but a cold stranger who tried to reason the matter out and find this beauty would fail»
«A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand.»
«The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it.»
«In literature imitations do not imitate»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Literature | Keywords: imitate, imitations
«A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: turned out
«Whatever a man's age, he can reduce it several years by putting a bright-colored flower in his button-hole.»
«It isn't so astonishing the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things that I can remember that aren't so.»
«There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself.»