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Letter "M" » Mark Twain Quotes
«Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.»
«We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
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Keywords:
feeling,
For the,
gained,
have-not,
Know how,
lost,
made,
making known,
matter,
much as,
Over the Rainbow,
pried,
pry,
prying,
rainbow,
Rainbows,
reverent,
savage,
savaged,
The Rainbow
«Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them»
«Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions»
«A man's private thought can never be a lie; what he thinks, is to him the truth, always»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
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Keywords:
always,
him,
lie,
never,
private,
privates,
The Truth,
thinks,
thought,
truth
«There is a good side and a bad side to most people, and in accordance with your own character and disposition you will bring out one of them and the other will remain a sealed book to you»
Author: Mark Twain
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Keywords:
accordance,
Book One,
bring out,
disposition,
one of them,
remain,
sealed,
sealing,
seals,
side
«Whatever you say, say it with conviction»
«It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
appear,
doubt,
keep open,
mouth,
open,
remove,
shut,
shutting,
shut in,
stupid
«On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.»
«Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law.»