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Mark Twain Quotes - Page 75

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One of the brightest gems in the New England weather is the dazzling uncertainty of it.

One of the brightest gems in the New England weather is the dazzling uncertainty of it.

Weather, England, Gems

Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.7203, Delphi Classics

Who are the oppressors? The few: the King, the capitalist, and a handful of other overseers and superintendents. Who are the oppressed? The many: the nations of the earth; the valuable personages; the workers; they that make the bread that the soft-handed and idle eat.

Kings, Bread, Earth

Mark Twain (1992). “Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1852-1890”, Library of America

Is not this insanity plea becoming rather common? Is it not so common that the reader confidently expects to see it offered in every criminal case that comes before the courts?... Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity.

Law, Insanity, Want

Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.2441, GENERAL PRESS

It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

Race, Body, Enough

Mark Twain (2008). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, p.142, Penguin

We Americans worship the almighty dollar! Well, it is a worthier god than Heredity Privilege.

Dollars, Privilege, Worship

Mark Twain, Michael Barry Frank, Robert Pack Browning, Lin Salamo, Frederick Anderson, Mark Twain (1980). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume III: (1883-1891)”, p.520, Univ of California Press

Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

Art, Book, Beer

"Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World". Volume II,

Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community, and I'll tell you what his opinions are.

Friends, Community, Opinion

Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can't sleep anyhow.

Mean, Sleep, Done

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.95, Courier Corporation

My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame.

Horse, Animal, Lame

Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.

Rocks, Skins, Switzerland

From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one -- to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for HIMSELF.

Spiritual, Men, Mind

Mark Twain (2016). “What Is Man? And Other Essays”, p.13, Xist Publishing

The kernel, the soul let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances is plagiarism. For substantially all ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources, and daily used by the garnerer with a pride and satisfaction born of the superstition that he originated them; whereas there is not a rag of originality about them anywhere except the little discoloration they get from his mental and moral calibre and his temperament, and which is revealed in characteristics of phrasing.

Pride, Hands, Ideas

Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.831, Jazzybee Verlag

The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman's methods. It remains a perpetuated crime, can never be anything but the symbol of a crime. It is no more entitled to respect than is the flag of a pirate.

Respect, Office, Pirate

Mark Twain (1973). “Mark Twain and the three R's: race, religion, revolution--and related matters”, Bobbs-Merrill Company

It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.

Luck, Ignorant, Way

Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain in Eruption (Abridged, Annotated)”, p.114, BIG BYTE BOOKS

My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory--an office of such majesty that it concentrated in itself the duties and dignities of Treasurer, Comptroller, Secretary of State, and Acting Governor in the Governor's absence. A salary of eighteen hundred dollars a year and the title of "Mr. Secretary," gave to the great position an air of wild and imposing grandeur. I was young and ignorant, and I envied my brother.

Brother, Book, Years

Mark Twain (2008). “10 Books in 1”, p.541, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised to find how far off they are, for they do not look it. When they first showed last night I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn't reach, which astonished me. Then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never got one. I did make some close shots, for I saw the black blot of the clod sail right into thee midst of the golden clusters forty or fifty times, just barely missing them, and if I could've held out a little longer, maybe I could've got one.

Perseverance, Stars, Tired

Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.2762, GENERAL PRESS

Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others-his last breath.

Life, Lasts, Born

Following the Equator ch. 42, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

A crowded police docket is the surest of all signs that trade is brisk and money plenty.

Police, Trade, Crowded

Mark Twain (1872). “Roughing It”, p.360, Buccaneer Books

Many of the cemeteries are beautiful, and are kept in perfect order. When one goes from the levee or the business streets [of New Orleans] to it, to a cemetery, he observes to himself that if those people down there would live as neatly while they are alive as they do after they are dead, they would find many advantages in it; and besides, their quarter would be the wonder and admiration of the business world.

Beautiful, New Orleans, Order

That is their way, those plagues, those scientists - peg, peg, peg - dig, dig, dig - plod, plod, plod. I wish I could catch a cargo of them for my place; it would be an economy. Yes, for years, you see. They never give up. Patience, hope, faith, perseverance; it is the way of all the breed.

Perseverance, Giving Up, Years

Mark Twain (2003). “Tales of Wonder”, p.229, U of Nebraska Press

I'm all for prosperity. It's change I object to.

Prosperity, Objects

By reading keep in a state of excited igorance, like a blind man in a house afire; flounder around, immensely but unintelligently interested; don't know how I got in and can't find the way out, but I'm having a booming time all to myself.Don't know what a Schelgesetzentwurf is, but I keep as excited over it and as worried about it as if it were my own child. I simply live on the Sch.; it is my daily bread. I wouldn't have the question settled for anything in the world.

Children, Reading, Men

You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know the laws: by words, not by effects. They take a meaning, and get to be very vivid, when you come to apply them to yourself.

Law, People, Vivid

Mark Twain, Bernard L. Stein (1983). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.346, Univ of California Press

The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. The walking is good to time the movement of the tongue by, and to keep the blood and the brain stirred up and active; the scenery and the woodsy smells are good to bear in upon a man an unconscious and unobtrusive charm and solace to eye and soul and sense; but the supreme pleasure comes from the talk.

Lying, Eye, Men

Mark Twain (2016). “A Tramp Abroad”, p.139, Xist Publishing

God was left out of the Constitution but was furnished a front seat on the coins of the country.

Country, Coins, Constitution

Mark Twain (2015). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.188, Univ of California Press

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