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Letter "M" » Mark Twain Quotes
«Comedy keeps the heart sweet.»
«He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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About:
Gossip
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Keywords:
common,
deadlier,
deadly,
gossiping,
gossips,
habitually,
lacks,
Of Man,
tongue
«Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive»
«And so I am become a knight of the Kingdom of Dreams and Shadows!»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
and so,
kingdom,
knight,
knighted,
shadows,
So I,
The Kingdom,
The knight,
The Knights
«Loyalty to petrified opinion never broke a chain or freed a human soul.»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
broke,
chain,
freed,
human soul,
loyalties,
loyalty,
petrified,
petrifies,
petrifying
«It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
burden,
desolation,
past life,
past times,
sad,
storm,
subdued,
subdues,
sweep over,
sweep through,
sweep up,
swept,
vanity
«Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to keep them from setting me afire inside; then all that ink and labor are wasted because I can't print the results»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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About:
Feelings
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Keywords:
afire,
hot,
ink,
inked,
inking,
labor,
on paper,
paper,
pen,
print,
results,
setting,
set afire,
wasted,
waste paper
«The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet»
«Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar they use»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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About:
Animals
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Keywords:
aggravate,
aggravated,
aggravates,
aggravating,
cats,
fighting,
grammar,
grammars,
ignorant,
make noise,
noise,
noised,
noise like,
sicken,
sickened,
sickening,
sickens
«In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.»