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Mark Twain Quotes - Page 90

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Good exercise for the heart: reach out and help your neighbor

Good exercise for the heart: reach out and help your neighbor

Heart, Exercise, Helping

It must be well-nigh a maximum of sense to behave so that one escapes being hanged.

Wells, Behave, Maximum

We all like to see people sea-sick when we are not ourselves.

Sea, People, Sick

Mark Twain (1984). “The Innocents Abroad ; Roughing it”, p.28, Library of America

The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it.

Speech, Counterfeit

Mark Twain (2000). “Mark Twain: Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims and Other Speeches”, Cooper Square Pub

I thoroughly believe that any man who's got anything worthwhile to say will be heard if he only says it often enough.

Believe, Men, Enough

You may have noticed that the less I know about a subject the more confidence I have, and the more new light I throw on it.

Light, May, Subjects

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.223, Courier Corporation

When it comes down to pure ornamental cursing, the native American is gifted above the sons of men.

Native American, Son, Men

Mark Twain (2016). “Roughing It”, p.319, Xist Publishing

There is only one good sex. The female one.

Sex, Good Sex, Female

Mark Twain (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations”, p.6, Courier Corporation

The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing, it is the thing to watch over and care for and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous. . . .

Country, Real, Watches

Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.100, Createspace Independent Pub

Our consciences take no notice of pain inflicted on others until it reaches a point where it gives pain to us.

Pain, Giving, Conscience

Mark Twain (2015). “Mark Twain's Essays: Top Essays”, p.21, 谷月社

Never waste a lie; you never know when you may need it.

Lying, Needs, May

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.235, Courier Corporation

I like criticism, but it must be my way.

Criticism, Way, My Way

Mark Twain (2012). “My Autobiography: "Chapters" from the North American Review”, p.2, Courier Corporation

A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.

Lying, Able, Historian

Mark Twain, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.74, Courier Corporation

Do good when you can, and charge when you think they will stand it.

Thinking

Mark Twain (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations”, p.10, Courier Corporation

It is sound statesmanship to add two battleships every time our neighbour adds one and two stories to our skyscrapers every time he piles a new one on top of his to threaten our light. There is no limit to this soundness but the sky.

Light, Sky, Two

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

None but an ass pays a compliment and asks a favour at the same time. There are many asses.

Pay, Favour, Compliment

I will gradually drop this subject of graveyards. I have been trying all I could to get down to the sentimental part of it, but I cannot accomplish it. I think there is no genuinely sentimental part to it. It is all grotesque, ghastly, horrible.

Thinking, Trying, Sentimental

Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.4172, GENERAL PRESS

It's a good thing for a dog to have fleas; keeps his mind off being a dog.

Dog, Mind, Fleas

Drop this mean and sordid and selfish devotion to the saving of your shabby little souls, and hunt up something to do that's got some dignity to it! Risk your souls! Risk them in good causes; then if you lose them, why should you care? Reform!

Selfish, Mean, Soul

Mark Twain (2004). “The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories”, p.108, Penguin

Even the clearest and most perfect circumstantial evidence is likely to be at fault, after all, and therefore ought to be received with great caution. Take the case of any pencil, sharpened by any woman; if you have witnesses, you will find she did it with a knife; but if you take simply the aspect of the pencil, you will say that she did it with her teeth.

Knives, Perfect, Teeth

Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 20, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

I should be sorry to think it was the publishers themselves they got up this entire little flutter to enable them to unload a book that was taking too much room in their cellars, but you can never tell what a publisher will do. I have been one myself.

Sorry, Book, Thinking

Mark Twain (2014). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, p.11, Penguin

I have only one moral precept; never smoke more than five cigars at a time.

Moral, Cigar, Five

The law is a system that protects everybody who can afford to hire a good lawyer.

Law, Lawyer, Protect

It is impossible that a genius - at least a literary genius - can ever be discovered by his intimates; they are so close to him that he is out of focus to them and they can't get at his proportions; they can't perceive that there is any considerable difference between his bulk and their own.

Differences, Focus, Genius

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.141, Courier Corporation

Golden rule: Made of hard metal so it could stand severe wear, it not being known at that time that butter would answer.

Answers, Golden, Made

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

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