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«A man can seldom -- very, very, seldom -- fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
Against All Odds, heavy, odds, training, winning
«Heroine: Girl in a book who is saved from drowning by a hero and marries him next week, but if it was to be over again ten years later it is likely she would rather have a life-belt and he would rather have her have it»
«Let us guess that whenever we read a sentence and like it, we unconsciously store it away in our model-chamber; and it goes, with the myriad of its fellows, to the building, brick by brick, of the eventual edifice which we call our style»
«If everybody was satisfied with himself there would be no heroes.»
«A conspiracy is nothing but a secret agreement of a number of men for the pursuance of policies which they dare not admit in public»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
agreement, conspiracy, in public, policies, public policy, pursuance
«Wit and Humor -- if any difference, it is in duration -- lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage -- the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
apparently, damage, duration, elaboration, electric, electric light, enjoys, lightning, vivid
«When the human race has once acquired a superstition nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
acquired, human race, likely, other race, race, remove, remove it, short, superstition
«There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
comedies, comedy, drama, dramas, dullest, exterior, impossibility, There was, tragedy, uninteresting
«Perseverance is a principle that should be commendable in those who have judgment to govern it»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Perseverance
| Keywords:
commendable, govern
«Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Ethics
| Keywords:
acquirement, acquirements, foreign, foreign language, foreign languages, morals, paralysis, piety, poker, pokers
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