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Mark Twain Quotes

«The world will not stop and think- it never does, it is not its way; its way is to generalize from a single sample»
«In the South the war is what AD is elsewhere; they date from it»
«Some of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamists»
«It's a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: just so
«An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency»
«If you beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time»
«Taking the pledge will not make bad liquor good, but it will improve it»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: liquor
«I shall not often meddle with politics, because we have a political Editor who is already excellent and only needs to serve a term or two in the penitentiary to be perfect»
«The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it»
«Obscurity and competence - that is the life that is best worth living»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Competence | Keywords: obscurity