Mark Twain Quotes, Speech Quotes

The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it.

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The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. I would not interfere with any one's religion, either to strengthen it or to weaken it. I am not able to believe one's religion can affect his hereafter one way or the other, no matter what that religion may be. But it may easily be a great comfort to him in this life-hence it is a valuable possession to him.

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Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

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It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.

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How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.

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Never miss an opportunity to shut up.

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Love your enemy, it will scare the hell out of them.

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I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened.

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Man is the only slave. And he is the only animal who enslaves. He has always been a slave in one form or another, and has always held other slaves in bondage under him in one way or another. In our day, he is always some man's slave for wages, and does that man's work; and this slave has other slaves under him for minor wages, and they do his work. The higher animals are the only ones who exclusively do their own work and provide their own living.

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We all like to see people sea-sick when we are not ourselves.

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The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry. He is always poor, out of luck and friendless. The meanest creatures despise him, and even the fleas would desert him for a velocipede.

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There has been only one Christian. They caught and curcified him-early.

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Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.

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All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

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I have learned that human existence is essentially tragic. It is only the love of God, disclosed and enacted in Christ, that redeems the human tragedy and makes it tolerable. No, more than tolerable. Wonderful.

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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. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them―then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any other vice.

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Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

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Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum.

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A mine is a hole in the ground with a liar on top.

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The true and lasting genius of humour does not drag you thus to boxes labelled 'pathos,' 'humour,' and show you all the mechanism of the inimitable puppets that are going to perform. How I used to laugh at Simon Tapperwit, and the Wellers, and a host more! But I can't do it now somehow; and time, it seems to me, is the true test of humour. It must be antiseptic.

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