Mark Twain Quotes, School Quotes

The problem with education is school.

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I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is not oftener than once in two years, and even in these same cases I seldom read beyond the middle of the book - my distaste for the vehicle always taints my judgment of the literature itself, as a matter of course; and also of course makes my verdict valuless. Are you saying "You have written stories yourself." Quite true: but the fact that an Indian likes to scalp people is no evidence that he likes to be scalped.

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Hotels are the only proper places for lecturers. When I am ill-natured I so enjoy the freedom of a hotel where I can ring up a domestic and give him a quarter and then break furniture over him.

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The world doesn't owe you anything. It was here first.

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I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English - it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in.

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An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.

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If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!

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... an experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite often picturesque liar.

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Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.

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Quitting smoking is easy, I've done it hundreds of times.

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How superbly brave is the Englishman in the presence of the awfulest forms of danger and death; and how abject in the presence of any and all forms of hereditary rank.

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Kindness is a language herd by deaf men and felt by blind men.

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

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Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more.

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As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.

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Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point.

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All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

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Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.

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As I have said before, I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its arbitrary forms, men unconsciously revealed shades of their characters, and also added enlightening shades of expression to what they wrote by their spelling, and so it is possible that the spelling-book has been a doubtful benevolence to us.

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History doesn't repeat itself; it rhymes.

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