I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating
than the man who invented retreating.
-- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)
than the man who invented retreating.
-- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)
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- I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge,
because I have got so much more of it. -- Mark Twain... - Adam was the only man who, when he said a good thing,
knew that nobody had said it before him. -- Mark Twain... - I am different from Washington; I have a higher, grander standard
of principle.
Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't.... - I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835... - Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes
its laws or its songs either.
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835... - I never respected a man who could spell.
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Mark Twain (1835... - I can live for two months on a good compliment.
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Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835... - I do not like work even when someone else does it.
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Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835... - It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother
me,
it is the parts that I do understand. -- Mark Twain...
From the same category:
- Ah, happy hills! ah, pleasing shade!
Ah, fields beloved in vain!
Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger... - We found on St. Paul's only two kinds of birds -- the booby and the noddy.
Both are of a tame and stupid disposition, and are... - The bomb will not start a chain reaction in the water,
converting it all to gas and letting all the ships... - The world needs more people like us and fewer
like them... - Silence never solved
anything...
