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Mark Twain Quotes

«He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.»
«All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised.»
«The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.»
«Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals»
«All saints can do miracles, but few of them can keep a hotel»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: All Saints
«We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: discreet
«Great books are weighed and measured by their style and matter and not by the trimmings and shadings of their grammer»
«A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: The Party
«Many public-school children seem to know only two dates - 1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion»
«Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.»