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Mark Twain Quotes - Page 61

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We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.

We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.

Garden, Novelty, Natural

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.208, Courier Corporation

Travel is fatal to bigotry.

Bigotry

No temperance society which is well officered and which has the real good of our fellow-men in view, will ever get drunk save in the seclusion of its temperance hall.

Real, Drinking, Men

Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles

Insanity, Insane, Criminal Mind

Mark Twain (2010). “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg: And Other Stories”, p.161, The Floating Press

Comedy keeps the heart sweet.

Sweet, Heart, Comedy

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.61, Courier Corporation

Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.

Funny, Respect, Truth

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.117, Courier Corporation

One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it.

Nature, Rainbow, Forget

Mark Twain (1929). “Stormfield Edition of the Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.].: Europe and elsewhere”

Ours is the "land of the free"-nobody denies that-nobody challenges it. (Maybe it is because we won't let other people testify.)

Land, People, Challenges

Mark Twain (2013). “Gold Miners & Guttersnipes: Tales of California”, p.11, Chronicle Books

You ought never to sass old people- unless they sass you first.

People, Sass, Firsts

Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.2730, GENERAL PRESS

God rewards gamblers and fools. The crucial thing, when you win, is knowing which you were.

Winning, Knowing, Rewards

Good wine needs no bush; a jug is the thing.

Wine, Jugs, Needs

Mark Twain (1972). “Everyone's Mark Twain”

It is hard enough luck being a monarch, without being a target also.

Luck, Target, Enough

Mark Twain (1992). “Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1891-1910”

None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try.

Trying, Half, Virtue

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.496, Courier Corporation

The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.

Work, Ruins, Interest

To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble.

Noble, Trouble

Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'.

Eight, Want, Dollars

1884 Jim.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, ch.8.

My land, the power of training! Of influence! Of education! It can bring a body up to believe anything.

Believe, Land, Training

Mark Twain (2016). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.170, Mark Twain

Chastity - you can carry it too far.

Chastity

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.1087, Jazzybee Verlag

It's not the parts of the Bible I don't know that worries me...it's the parts that I do.

Worry, Knows

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

Funny, Inspirational Life, Book

Following the Equator (1897) ch. 27

Steal a chicken if you get a chance, Huck, because if you don't want it, someone else does and a good deed ain't never forgotten.

Doe, Deeds, Want

Wheresoever she was, there was Eden.

Eden

Mark Twain (2012). “The Diaries of Adam and Eve and Other Stories”, p.28, Courier Corporation

A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.

Book, Cat, Broken

All kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out.

Kings, Fur, Make Out

Mark Twain (2015). “Tom Sawyer Collection: All Four Books”, p.276, Lulu.com

Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought.

Atheist, Atheism, Vagrants

The Mysterious Stranger ch. 11 (1916)

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