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Mark Twain Quotes - Page 80

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He was sunshine most always-I mean he made it seem like good weather.

He was sunshine most always-I mean he made it seem like good weather.

Mean, Sunshine, Weather

Mark Twain (2008). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, p.98, Penguin

There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

Teaching, Assessment, Personality

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) ch. 1

It didn't take me long to make up my mind that these liars warn't no kings nor dukes at all, but just low-down humbugs and frauds. But I never said nothing, never let on; kept it to myself; it's the best way; then you don't have no quarrels, and don't get into no trouble. If they wanted us to call them kings and dukes, I hadn't no objections, 'long as it would keep peace in the family; and it warn't no use to tell Jim, so I didn't tell him. If I never learnt nothing else out of pap, I learnt that the best way to get along with his kind of people is to let them have their own way.

Kings, Liars, Long

Mark Twain (2008). “10 Books in 1”, p.110, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

We catched fish, and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn’t ever feel like talking loud, and it warn’t often that we laughed, only a kind of low chuckle. We had mighty good weather, as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all, that night, nor the next, nor the next.

Stars, Night, Drifting Off

Mark Twain (2010). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: The Only Authoritative Text Based on the Complete, Original Manuscript”, p.78, Univ of California Press

Saturday morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life. There was a song in every heart; and if the heart was young, the music issued at the lips. There was cheer in every face and a spring in every step. The locust-trees were in bloom, and the fragrance of the blossoms filled the air. Cardiff Hill, beyond the village and above, it was green with vegetation, and it lay just far enough away to seem a Delectable Land, dreamy, reposeful, and inviting.

Summer, Song, Morning

Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.617, GENERAL PRESS

It has been reported that I was seriously ill--it was another man; dying--it was another man; dead--the other man again...As far as I can see, nothing remains to be reported, except that I have become a foreigner. When you hear it, don't you believe it. And don't take the trouble to deny it. Merely just raise the American flag on our house in Hartford and let it talk.

Death, Believe, Men

Germany, the diseased world's bathhouse.

Sarcastic, Germany, World

Mark Twain, Harriet Elinor Smith (2012). “Autobiography of Mark Twain: Reader's Edition”, p.76, Univ of California Press

Had double chins all the way down to his stomach.

Funny, Sarcastic, Way

Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.231, Univ of Wisconsin Press

When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn't know.

Religion, Atheism, Deities

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.222, Courier Corporation

In God We Trust. It is the choicest compliment that has ever been paid us, and the most gratifying to our feelings. It is simple, direct, gracefully phrased; it always sounds well - In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true.

Believe, Simple, Feelings

Mark Twain (2017). “MARK TWAIN: 12 Novels, 195 Short Stories, Autobiography, 10 Travel Books, 160+ Essays & Speeches (Illustrated): Including Letters & Biographies – The Complete Works of Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, The Innocents Abroad, Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Life on the Mississippi…”, p.8407, e-artnow

Foreigners cannot enjoy our food, I suppose, any more than we can enjoy theirs. It is not strange; for tastes are made, not born. I might glorify my bill of fare until I was tired; but after all, the Scotchman would shake his head and say, 'Where's your haggis?' and the Fijan would sigh and say, 'Where's your missionary?'

Tired, Might, Bills

Mark Twain (2015). “A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.221, 谷月社

Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible

Witty, Writing, Men

It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and find the pleasanter features of an experience.

Optimistic, Lovely, Disposition

Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.62, Univ of Wisconsin Press

Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.

Ignorance, Men, Hands

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.195, Courier Corporation

...ignorant as the unborne babe! ignorant as unborn twins!

Ignorance, Ignorant, Twins

We never knew an ignorant person yet but was prejudiced.

Ignorance, Ignorant, Ignorant Person

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.196, Courier Corporation

...one should be gentle with the ignorant, for they are the chosen of God.

Ignorance, Ignorant, Should

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.196, Courier Corporation

A marriage. . .will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a new mystery to life.

Soulmate, Flower, Sunshine

Mark Twain (1992). “Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 3: 1869”, p.348, Univ of California Press

All you drunkards: Put down the intoxicating Vanity Metrics.

Vanity, Metrics, Drunkards

People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.

Book, Reading, People

I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well.

Writing, Blow, Brain

Mark Twain, Charles Neider (1986). “Mark Twain at his best: a comprehensive sampler : with four items in book form for the first time”, Doubleday Books

No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work.

Appreciation, Men, Editors

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.219, Courier Corporation

I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want to take on trust. It's a classic ... something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

Trust, Believe, Book

1900 Speech on'The Disappearance of Literature' at the Nineteenth Century Club, 20 Nov. Quoted in Albert Bigelow Paine (ed) MarkTwain's Speeches (1910).

There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable report - the native novelist. ... And when a thousand able novels have been written, there you have the soul of the people; and not anywhere else can these be had.

Reading, People, Soul

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.333, Courier Corporation

I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is not oftener than once in two years, and even in these same cases I seldom read beyond the middle of the book - my distaste for the vehicle always taints my judgment of the literature itself, as a matter of course; and also of course makes my verdict valuless. Are you saying "You have written stories yourself." Quite true: but the fact that an Indian likes to scalp people is no evidence that he likes to be scalped.

Book, Reading, Years

Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.57, Chartwell

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