Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorites, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines. To save his life he could not have kept two of these young creatures satisfactorily refreshed, even if he had fifteen experts to help him. Necessarily almost the entire thousand had to go hungry for years and years on a stretch. Conceive of a man hardhearted enough to look daily upon all that suffering and not be moved to mitigate it.

Mark Twain


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Don’t you know what that is? It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want—oh, you don’t quite know what it is you DO want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!

Mark Twain

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You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you

Mark Twain


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Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

Mark Twain

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If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loudly. Do not compound mispronunciation with inaudibility

Mark Twain


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Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick; but every time you's gwyne to git well agin.

Mark Twain


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The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.

Mark Twain

Tags: wisdom man wrong right recovery inferiority



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Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.

Mark Twain


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S'pose a man was to come to you and say Pollyvoo-franzy - what would you think?

Mark Twain


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One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a women is, until
after considerable acquaintance with her.

Mark Twain

Tags: love beauty men-and-women



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