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Mark Twain Quotes

«There is no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Civilization | Keywords: adopt, lift
«It is not best that we use our morals week days; it gets them out of repair for Sundays»
«I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble»
«It is not likely that any complete life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret judgment of the person that lived it»
«Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Wit | Keywords: perceived
«None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try»
«The Autocrat of Russia possesses more power than any other man in the earth; but he cannot stop a sneeze»
«Shut the door not that it lets in the cold but that it lets out the coziness.»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: coziness
«Is it, perhaps, possible that there are two kinds of civilization one for home consumption and one for the heathen market?»
«Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.»