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Mark Twain Quotes

«Few sinners are saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Sin | Keywords: minutes, saved, sermon, sinners, twenty
«It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and undeservedly succeed when the informed and experienced fail.»
«Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good.»
«Adam was the author of sin, and I wish he had taken out an international copyright on it.»
«I saw a cat yesterday with 4 legs and yet it was only a yellow cat, and rather small, too, for its size. They were not all fore legs several of them were hind legs; indeed almost a majority of them were.»
«I am losing enough sleep to supply a worn-out army.»
«Independence - is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes»
«Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy must have somebody to divide it with.»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Grief | Keywords: Care of, divide, take care
«A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes»
«What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce.»