Mark Twain Quotes, Food Quotes, Wine Quotes

There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.

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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.

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I reverently believe that the Maker who made us all makes everything in New England but the weather. I don't know who makes that, but I think it must be raw apprentices in the weather clerk's factory who experiment and learn how, in New England, for board and clothes, and then are promoted to make weather for countries that require a good article, and will take their custom elsewhere if they don't get it...

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If your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.

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Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

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But it warn't no time to be sentimentering.

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Like most people, I often feel mean, and act accordingly.

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Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

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She is not refined. She is not unrefined. She keeps a parrot

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Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

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There is no family in America without a clock, and consequently there is no fair pretext for the usual Sunday medley of dreadful sounds that issues from our steeples.

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No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise.

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A good lawyer knows the law; a clever one takes the judge to lunch.

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Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.

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Crowds stand around all day long and criticise that bridge, and find fault with it, and tell with unlimited frankness how it ought to have been planned, and how they would have built it had the city granted them the $14,000 it cost. It is really refreshing to hang around these and listen to them. A foreigner would come to the conclusion that all America was composed of inspired professional bridge builders.

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Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.

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A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain.

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The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.

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There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather... In the spring I have counted one hundred and twenty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours.

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