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Mark Twain Quotes

«None but the dead have free speech. None but the dead are permitted to speak truth.»
«Man is the lowest animal.»
«Quitting smoking is easy. I've done it a thousand times.»
«Four years at West Point and plenty of books and schooling will learn a man a great deal, It won't learn him the river.»
«The people stared at us everywhere, and we stared at them. We bore down on them with America's greatness until we crushed them.»
«Love is a madness; if thwarted it develops fast.»
«You can go to heaven if you want. I'd rather stay in Bermuda.»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Heaven
«Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever.»
«America is built on a tilt, and everything loose slides towards California.»
«The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. The walking is good to time the movement of the tongue by, and to keep the blood and the brain stirred up and active . . .»