Mark Twain Quotes, Russia Quotes, Europe Quotes

I wish Europe would let Russia annihilate Turkey a little--not much, but enough to make it difficult to find the place again without a divining-rod or a diving-bell.

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Travel is fatal to bigotry.

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A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

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great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.

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France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

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Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

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If your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.

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If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?

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The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow.

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Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys.

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Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

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But soft you, the fair Ophelia: Ope not thy ponderous and marble jaws, But get thee to a nunnery - go!

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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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I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.

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Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

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None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try.

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A good lawyer knows the law; a clever one takes the judge to lunch.

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We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years.

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I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.

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