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Mark Twain Quotes
«If a person offends you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures; simply watch your chance and hit him with a brick.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
brick, brick in, extreme, Extreme Measures, hit, intentional, measures, offending, offends, resort, resorted, resorting, resort to, The Brick, To the Extreme
«Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth.»
«Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Humor
| Keywords:
cropped, crops, irritation, irritations, resentments, saving, slip, slip away, sunny
«The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man's»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Dogs
| Keywords:
gentleman, go to, The Dog, The Gentlemen
«Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
at all, better, diamonds, let, none, old, particular, Particulars, secondhand, The Diamond, The Diamonds, too