Nature has no originality--I mean, no large ability in the matter of inventing new things, new ideas, new stage effects. She has a superb and amazing and infinitely varied equipment of old ones, but she never adds to them. She repeats--repeats--repeats--repeats. Examine your memory and your experience; you will find it is true.
Mark TwainIn Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?
Mark TwainTags: new-york-city boston philadelphia
I've experienced a great deal of pain and suffering in my life ...... most of which has never happened.
Mark TwainThe dream vocabulary shaves meanings finer and closer than do the world's daytime dictionaries.
Mark TwainTags: writing
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.
Mark TwainOne ought always to lie, when one can do good by it;
Mark TwainMy experience of men had long ago taught me that one of the surest ways of begetting an enemy was to do some stranger an act of kindness which should lay upon him the irritating sense of an obligation.
Mark TwainA man who goes around with a prophecy-gun ought never to get discouraged: if he will keep up his heart and fire at everything he sees, he is bound to hit something by and by.
Mark TwainI could not really complain, because he had only given me his word of honor as security; I ought to have required of him something substantial.
Mark Twaincongress - that great, benevolent asylum for the helpless
Mark TwainTags: humor
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