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Mark Twain

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One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.


— Mark Twain


#scripture

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


— Mark Twain


#killing #nature

Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.


— Mark Twain


#farce #human-race #humanity #death

I am only human, although I regret it.


— Mark Twain


#nature

Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.


— Mark Twain


#europe #traveling #voyage #men

When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum.


— Mark Twain


#humour #satire #satire

If a cat sits on a hot stove, that cat won't sit on a hot stove again. That cat won't sit on a cold stove either. That cat just don't like stoves.


— Mark Twain


#life #truth #humor

I don't like to commit myself about Heaven and Hell, you see, I have friends in both places.


— Mark Twain


#heaven #hell #friendship

The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.


— Mark Twain


#experience

Do the thing you fear the most and the death of fear is certain.


— Mark Twain


#death






About Mark Twain

Mark Twain Quotes




Did you know about Mark Twain?

But I have thought some more since then and I have read carefully the treaty of Paris [which ended the Spanish-American War] and I have seen that we do not intend to free but to subjugate the people of the Philippines. There were three versions found in his manuscripts made between 1897 and 1905: the Hannibal Eseldorf and Print Shop versions. He did state that "the goodness the justice and the mercy of God are manifested in His works" but also that "the universe is governed by strict and immutable laws" which determine "small matters" such as who dies in a pestilence.

Twain chose to pay all his pre-bankruptcy creditors in full though he had no responsibility to do this under the law. He also worked as a typesetter and contributed articles to his older brother Orion's newspaper. He achieved great success as a writer and public speaker.

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