Mark Twain Quotes, Europe Quotes, Ideas Quotes

As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.

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Very well, then, where do we arrive? Where do we arrive with our respect, our homage, our filial affection? At Adam! At Adam, every time. We can't build a monument to a germ, but we can build one to Adam, who is in the way to turn myth in in fifty years and be entirely forgotten in two hundred. We can build a monument and save his name to the world forever, and we'll do it!

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If books are not good company, where shall I find it?

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Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

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A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

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God puts something good and loveable in every man His hands create.

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You can't throw too much style into a miracle.

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Ignorance is not not knowin' - Ignorance is knowin' what ain't so.

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If all men were rich, all men would be poor.

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Like most people, I often feel mean, and act accordingly.

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How lovely is death; and how niggardly it is doled out.

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It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term.

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Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

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If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him.

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No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.

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

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From the dome of St. Peter's one can see every notable object in Rome... He can see a panorama that is varied, extensive, beautiful to the eye, and more illustrious in history than any other in Europe.

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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

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There are some natures which never grow large enough to speak out and say a bad act is a bad act, until they have inquired into the politics or the nationality of the man who did it.

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A man who chooses not to read is just as ignorant as a man who cannot read.

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