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Mark Twain Quotes

«Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Popularity | Keywords: motto
«Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any»
«The New York papers have long known that no large question is ever really settled until I have been consulted»
«Women cannot receive even the most palpably judicious suggestion without arguing it, that is, married women.»
«A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation»
«His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Ignorance | Keywords: blanket, covers, scarcely
«To make a pledge of any kind is to declare war against nature; for a pledge is a chain that is always clanking and reminding the wearer of it that he is not a free man»
«When some men discharge an obligation you can hear the report for miles around»
«We do not deal much in facts when we are contemplating ourselves»
«By trying, we can easily learn to endure adversity another man's, I mean»