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Mark Twain Quotes - Page 79

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The smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes.

The smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes.

Heart, Soul, Mind

Mark Twain (2004). “The Portable Mark Twain”, p.572, Penguin

Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man.

Men, Congress, Distinction

The lightning there is peculiar; it is so convincing, that when it strikes a thing it doesn't leave enough of that thing behind for you to tell whether-Well, you'd think it was something valuable, and a Congressman had been there.

Thinking, Lightning, Peculiar

Mark Twain (2017). “Mark Twain’s Comedy Classics: 190+ Stories & Sketches (Illustrated Edition): The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain: A Double Barrelled Detective Story, Those Extraordinary Twins, The Stolen White Elephant, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, Sketches New and Old, Mark Twain’s Library of Humor…”, p.1304, e-artnow

Every man feels that his experience is unlike that of anybody else and therefore he should write it down-- he finds also that everybody else has thought and felt on some points precisely as he has done, and therefore he should write it down.

Writing, Men, Done

Mark Twain (2010). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.7, Univ of California Press

To someone with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Nails, Hammers, Looks

In our day we don't allow a hundred and thirty years to elapse between glimpses of a marvel. If somebody should discover a creek in the county next to the one that the North Pole is in, Europe and America would start fifteen costly expeditions thither; one to explore the creek, and the other fourteen to hunt for each other.

Europe And America, Discovery, Years

Mark Twain (2015). “Life On The Mississippi: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.6, 谷月社

How superbly brave is the Englishman in the presence of the awfulest forms of danger and death; and how abject in the presence of any and all forms of hereditary rank.

Brave, Danger, Form

Mark Twain (194?). “Mark Twain's notebook”

Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys.

Humble, Turkeys, Giving

Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 18, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

Today's burdens can strengthen you for tomorrow.

Today, Tomorrow, Burden

There's something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don't work for me, and I reckon it don't work for only just the right kind.

Widows, Body, Praying

Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.413, GENERAL PRESS

Cooper's art has some defects. In one place in 'Deerslayer,' and in the restricted space of two-thirds of a page, Cooper has scored 114 offences against literary art out of a possible 115. It breaks the record.

Art, Two, Space

Mark Twain (2014). “Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses”, p.4, The Floating Press

We had an abundance of mangoes, papaias and bananas here, but the pride of the islands, the most delicious fruit known to men, cherimoya, was not in season. It has a soft pulp, like a pawpaw, and is eaten with a spoon.

Pride, Men, Islands

When I take up one of Jane Austen's books ... I feel like a barkeep entering the kingdom of heaven. I know what his sensation would be and his private comments. He would not find the place to his taste, and he would probably say so.

Book, Heaven, Would Be

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

The equator was wisely put where it is, because if it had been run through Europe all the kings would have tried to grab it.

Running, Kings, Europe

Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.105, Courier Corporation

Constellations have always been troublesome things to name. If you give one of them a fanciful name, it will always refuse to live up to it; it will always persist in not resembling the thing it has been named for.

Names, Giving, Constellations

Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: "A Journey Around the World"”, p.76, eKitap Projesi

When you catch an adjective, kill it - perhaps the best possible advice for budding writers.

Advice, Adjectives

Human pride is not worthwhile; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it.

Lying, Pride, Wind

Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.34, Chartwell

I don't want no better book than what your face is.

Book, Want, Faces

Mark Twain, Barry Moser (1985). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, p.275, Univ of California Press

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. . . . The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. . . . When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world.

Mean, Player, Men

Mark Twain, Gary Scharnhorst (2006). “Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews”, p.517, University of Alabama Press

There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you know ain't so'.

Believe, Calling, Shallow

Mark Twain (2014). “Following the Equator”, p.72, Trajectory Inc

All I care to know about a man is that he is a human being... he can't be any worse.

Men, Care, Humans

There are things which some people never attempt during their whole lives, but one of these is not poetry. Poetry attacks all human beings sooner or later, and, like the measles, is mild or violent according to the age of the sufferer.

People, Age, Violent

But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war, the desire to kill people to whom I had not been introduced had passed away.

War, Boys, People

Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.3845, GENERAL PRESS

Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.

Book, Someday, Grammar

Mark Twain (2017). “Mark Twain, the Globetrotter: Complete Travel Books, Memoirs & Anecdotes (Illustrated Edition): A Tramp Abroad, The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It, Old Times on the Mississippi, Life on the Mississippi, Following the Equator & Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion, With Author’s Biography”, p.646, e-artnow

The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.

Race, Joy, Done

Mark Twain (2014). “Following The Equator”, p.396, Jazzybee Verlag

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