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Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.
By Mark Twain
At the beginning of a great national change, the patriot is a scarce man: scorned, ridiculed and forgotten. When his cause succeeds, however, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
By Mark Twain
As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.
By Mark Twain
Are you so unobservant that you do not yet realize that sanity and hapiness are an impossible combination?
By Mark Twain
An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.
By Mark Twain
An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.
By Mark Twain
All say, 'How hard it is that we have to die'--a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
By Mark Twain
All schools, all colleges have two great functions to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge. - Notebook, 1908
By Mark Twain
After all these years I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.
By Mark Twain
Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principle one was that they escaped teething.
By Mark Twain
Adam was but human - this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple’s sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.
By Mark Twain
Adam was the only man who, when he said a good thing, knew that nobody had said it before him
By Mark Twain
A verb has a hard enough time of it in this world when it is all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's 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 a way over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German.
By Mark Twain
A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
By Mark Twain
A patriot is mocked, scorned and hated; yet when his cause succeeds, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
By Mark Twain