You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it; and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere but there, not for the world.
Mark TwainMots clés kindlehighlight
It made one mad, for pleasure; and we could not take our eyes from him, and the looks that went out of our eyes came from our hearts, and their dumb speech was worship.
Mark TwainMots clés kindlehighlight
When they came it was as if the lord of the world had arrived, and had brought all the glories of its kingdoms along; and when they went they left a calm behind which was like the deep sleep which follows an orgy.
Mark TwainMots clés kindlehighlight
Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.
Mark TwainMots clés reputation
This is Huck Finn, a child of mine of shady reputation. Be good to him for his parent's sake.
Mark TwainWhat would the new teacher, representing France, teach us? Railroading? No. France knows nothing valuable about railroading. Steamshipping? No. France has no superiorities over us in that matter. Steamboating? No. French steamboating is still of Fulton's date--1809. Postal service? No. France is a back number there. Telegraphy? No, we taught her that ourselves. Journalism? No. Magazining? No, that is our own specialty. Government? No; Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, Nobility, Democracy, Adultery the system is too variegated for our climate. Religion? No, not variegated enough for our climate. Morals? No, we cannot rob the poor to enrich ourselves.
Mark TwainMots clés humour
It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.
Mark TwainAlways read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
Mark TwainI saw a startling sight today, a politician with his hands in his own pockets.
Mark TwainWe must take things as we find them in this world.
Mark TwainMots clés who-was-mark-twain
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