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  • What is there in Rome for me to see that others have not seen before me? What is there for me to touch that others have not touched? What is there for me to feel, to learn, to hear, to know, that shall thrill me before it pass to others? What can I discover?--Nothing. Nothing whatsoever. One charm of travel dies here.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Rome Quotes , Thrill Quotes
  • My father and I were always on the most distant terms when I was a boy--a sort of armed neutrality, so to speak. At irregular intervals this neutrality was broken, and suffering ensued; but I will be candid enough to say that the breaking and the suffering were always divided up with strict impartiality between us--which is to say, my father did the breaking, and I did the suffering.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Father Quotes , Boys Quotes
  • If your mother tells you to do a thing, it is wrong to reply that you won't. It is better and more becoming to intimate that you will do as she bids you, and then afterwards act quietly in the matter according to the dictates of your better judgment.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Mother Quotes , Matter Quotes
  • If there is one thing that is really cheerful in the world, it is cheerfulness. I have noticed it often. And I have noticed that when a man is right down cheerful, he is seldom unhappy for the time being. Such is the nature of man.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Men Quotes , Unhappy Quotes