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Mark Twain Quotes

«Let us endeavor to live so that when we die even the undertaker will be sorry»
«It is very wearing to be good»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Goodness | Keywords: wearing
«I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.»
«When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Chance | Keywords: chances, deceive
«Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Change | Keywords: handmaiden, handmaidens
«It is because they do not think at all; they only think they think.»
«A solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity»
«We must put up with clothes as they are they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us to advertise what we wear them to conceal.»
«The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco»
«Sometimes people do get hurt»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Pain