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«Almost any man worthy of his salt would fight to defend his home, but no one ever heard of a man going to war for his boarding house»
«The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner of the telling; the comic story and the witty story upon the matter.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
comic, humorous, The Comic, The Telling, witty
«Modesty died when clothes were born.»
«We must annex those people. We can afflict them with our wise and beneficent government. We can introduce the novelty of thieves, all the way up from street-car pickpockets to municipal robbers and Government defaulters, and show them how amusing it is to arrest them and try them and then turn them loose -- some for cash and some for ''political influence.'' We can make them ashamed of their simple and primitive justice. We can make that little bunch of sleepy islands the hottest corner on earth, and array it in the moral splendor of our high and holy civilization. Annexation is what the poor islanders need. ''Shall we to men benighted, the lamp of life deny?''»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip, may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.»
«I did not attend his funeral, but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved of it»
«Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
blowing up, blown up, blows, blow out, blow over, built, certainties, damage, damaged, damages, doubt, houses, sand, sanded, sanding, subject, subjecting, subject to, wind
«Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human promises? That is a peculiar condition of society which enables a whole nation to instantly recognize point and meaning in the familiar newspaper anecdote, which puts into the mouth of a distinguished speculator in lands and mines this remark: -- ''I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two millions of dollars.''»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
anecdote, cent, distinguished, enables, Golden Age, golden mean, instantly, lands, land mines, million years ago, mines, Modern Age, modern society, mutual, newspaper, peculiar, promised land, reliance, remark, speculator, speculators, The Golden Age, The Modern Age, unlimited
«Let us save the to-morrows for work»
«When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
allegiance, besides, extending, gutter, gutters, kick, lunatic, party man, perpetuated, perpetuating, preaching, utterly
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