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Quotations by author » Mark Twain
American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910
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The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all.
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The world will not stop and think- it never does, it is not its way; its way is to generalize from a single sample
World
The worst thing you can do to a man is to tell him he can have what he wants
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Then away out in the woods I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell about something that's on its mind and can't make itself understood, and so can't rest easy in its grave, and has to go about that way every night grieving.
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There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.
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There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.
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There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press
Law and lawyers
There are lies, damned lies and statistics.
Lies
There are many humorous things in the world, among them the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages
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There are many scapegoats for our blunders, but the most popular one is Providence
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There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular is providence
Sin
There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it
Vanity
There are no mistakes in life, there are only lessons to be learned: Adivce to the Youth.
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There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined
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There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice
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There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself.
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There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency- and a virtue; and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency- and a vice
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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies and statistics.
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There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
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There are two forces that can carry light to all corners of the globe - the sun in the heavens and the associated press down here
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