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Mark Twain Quotes

«It is my custom to keep on talking until I get the audience cowed»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: cowed
«Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of our selves, and how little we think of the other person»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: concealing
«Only strangers eat tamarinds - but they only eat them once»
«To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do»
«Don't explain your author, read him right and he explains himself»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: explains
«When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble»
«When it's steamboat time, you steam»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Time | Keywords: steam, steamboat, steamboats
«If we had less statesmanship we could get along with fewer battleships»
«In my experience, only third-rate intelligence is sent to Legislatures to make laws, because the first-rate article will not leave important private interests go unwatched to go and serve the public for a beggarly four or five dollars a day, and a mi»
«It is agreed, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it is not incumbent on him to care whether the arrangement is satisfactory to anyone else or not»