If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.
Mark TwainBut I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of therest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it. I been there before.
Mark TwainThe radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.
Mark TwainTo me [Edgar Allan Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death.
Mark TwainTag: bad-reviews jane-austen
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
Mark TwainTag: inspirational death
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark TwainTag: imagination
The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when it's all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's just what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it away over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German.
from "Disappearance of Literature
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer."
[Mark Twain, a Biography]
Tag: humor profanity prayer relief you-ll-completely-understand-why
People talk about beautiful relationships between two persons of the same sex. What is the best of that sort as compared with the friendship of man and wife where the best impulses and highest ideals of both are the same? There is no place for comparison between the two friendships; the one is earthly, the other divine.
Mark TwainIt is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those 3 unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
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