“Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live.” — Mark Twain, Following the Equator
Tag: Samuel Clemens
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“I think there is much need of wise examination into what sorts of lies are best and wholesomest to be indulged, seeing we must all lie and we do all lie.” — Mark Twain, On the Decay of the Art of Lying
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“The late Bill Nye once said ‘I have been told that Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.’” — Mark Twain, Mark Twain’s Notebook
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“Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.” — Mark Twain, Mark Twain’s Notebook
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“Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.” — Mark Twain, Mark Twain’s Notebook
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“Herodotus says, ‘Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects’.” — Mark Twain, A Horse’s Tale
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“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” — Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
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“Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.” — Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
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“H’aint we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain’t that a big enough majority in any town?” — Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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“To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.” — Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer