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Letter "M" » Mark Twain Quotes
«Use the right word and not its second cousin»
«Its easier to stay out than get out»
«There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing»
«Too much of anything is bad, but too much of good whiskey is barely enough.»
«I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison»
Author: Mark Twain
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Keywords:
clean,
incision,
incisions,
lancet,
lancets,
poison,
sweetened,
sweetens,
The Clean
«There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
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Keywords:
charm,
charmed,
desirable,
Forbade,
forbidden,
forbidding,
makes,
most desirable,
unspeakably
«A sin takes on a new and real terror when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out»
«Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink- under any circumstances»
«Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized friend and benefactor of the erring, the forsaken, the old and weary and broken of heart»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
benefactor,
benefactors,
erring,
forsaken,
forsaking,
kindliest,
prized,
refuge,
solace,
solaced,
solaces,
weary
«God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New - the Jekyll and Hyde of sacred romance»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
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Keywords:
atrocious,
attractive,
Jekyll and Hyde,
New Gods,
Old Testament,
romance,
sacred,
testament,
testaments,
The New