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Mark Twain

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When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.


— Mark Twain


#certain #grade #hair #people #social

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.


— Mark Twain


#cannot #cat #hold #learn #other

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.


— Mark Twain


#changes #christian #contents #medical #practice

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.


— Mark Twain


#best #difference #horse #makes #opinion

The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.


— Mark Twain


#course #demands #finest #made #more

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.


— Mark Twain


#i #more #understand #you

Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat.


— Mark Twain


#human #human race #miss #noah #often

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.


— Mark Twain


#birth #funeral #grieve #involved #person

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.


— Mark Twain


#ever #may #pause #right #right word

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.


— Mark Twain


#fluid #ink #merely #prejudice #very






About Mark Twain

Mark Twain Quotes




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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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