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  • The cigar-box which the European calls a 'lift' needs but to be compared with our elevators to be appreciated. The lift stops to reflect between floors. That is all right in a hearse, but not in elevators. The American elevator acts like a man's patent purge-it works.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Science Quotes , Men Quotes
  • I cherish the dreams of yesterday and dare not dwell on the err's of my past whose fate has been long decided, and effect I can not change. For the dreams of yesterday are the challenges of today, and the hope for tomorrow.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Dream Quotes , Fate Quotes
  • I think that the reason why we Americans seem to be so addicted to trying to get rich suddenly is merely because the opportunity to make promising efforts in that direction has offered itself to us with a frequency out of all proportion to the European experience.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Opportunity Quotes , Thinking Quotes
  • You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly creations of an imagination that is not conscious of its freaks - in a word, that they are a dream, and you the maker of it. The dream-marks are all present; you should have recognized them earlier.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Dream Quotes , Silly Quotes