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Mark Twain Quotes

«It is easier to manufacture seven facts out of whole cloth than one emotion»
«It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals, but there is seldom any money in them»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: truest
«There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.»
«In a museum in Havana there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, ?one when he was a boy and one when he was a man.»
«A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.»
«The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds»
«Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence - stuffed and in a museum»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: museum, stuffed
«Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.»
«Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.»
«To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times.»