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In literature imitations do not imitate.
Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
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More quotes by Mark Twain
Your road is everything that a road ought to be...and yet you will not stay in it half a mile, for the reason that little, seductive, mysterious roads are always branching out from it on either hand, and as these curve sharply also and hide what is beyond, you cannot resist the temptation to desert your own chosen path and explore them.
Mark Twain
Never miss an opportunity to shut up.
Mark Twain
Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn
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I have traveled more than anyone else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent.
Mark Twain
If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick.
Mark Twain
Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.
Mark Twain
Humorists of the 'mere' sort cannot survive. Humor is only a fragrance, a decoration.
Mark Twain
Dying man couldn't make up his mind which place to go to-both have their advantages, heaven for the climate, hell for the company!
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There is no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level.
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Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.
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Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set a piano's teeth on edge.
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I said nothing of the sort.
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What a curious kind of fool a girl is. Never been licked in school. What's a licking?
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You can't throw too much style into a miracle.
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The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.
Mark Twain
I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain
What a world of trouble those who never marry escape! There are many happy matches, it is true, and sometimes my dear, and my love come from the heart but what sensible bachelor, rejoicing in his freedom and years of discretion, will run the tremendous risk?
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God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention.
Mark Twain
More than once I have been humiliated by my resemblance to God the father He is always longing for the love of His children and trying to get it on the cheapest and laziest terms He can invent.
Mark Twain
How slow and still the time did drag along.
Mark Twain
