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Letter "M" » Mark Twain Quotes
«One learns through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
eyeing,
eyes,
Eye for an eye,
heart,
intellect,
In My Eyes,
learns,
one,
see eye to eye,
through
«It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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About:
Truth
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Keywords:
fiction,
fictions,
has,
it No,
make,
make sense,
sense,
sensed,
sense an,
sensing,
stranger,
Stranger than Fiction,
truth,
wonder
«History doesn't repeat itself - at best it sometimes rhymes»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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About:
History
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Keywords:
at best,
history,
in and of itself,
Itself,
repeat,
rhymed,
rhymes,
rhyming,
sometimes,
The Histories
«If I cannot smoke cigars in Heaven, I shall not go»
«The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
best,
cheer,
cheered,
cheer up,
else,
someone,
Someone else,
The Best,
try,
trying on,
try for,
try on,
try out,
way
«I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.»
«In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
almost,
at issue,
authorities,
beliefs,
By belief,
case,
cased,
convictions,
examination,
examined,
examines,
gotten,
hand,
have-not,
his case,
issue,
issuing,
politics,
questions,
religion,
second,
seconded,
second hand,
taken,
take issue,
themselves
«Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
educated,
educates,
gold,
iron,
ironed,
ironing,
irons,
iron ore,
limit,
ore,
ores
«It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
information,
Information the,
More information,
no show,
off,
private,
privates,
show,
show off
«Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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About:
Age,
Mind
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Keywords:
Age to Age,
at issue,
come of age,
issue,
issuing,
matter,
mind over matter,
over,
take issue