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Mark Twain Quotes

«Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Honesty
«The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are»
«Wherefore being all of one mind, we do highly resolve that government of the grafted by the grafter for the grafter shall not perish from the earth»
«Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word»
«Probably nor'east to sou'west winds varying to the southard and westard and eastard and points between; high and low barometer, sweeping round from place to place; probably areas of rain, snow, heat and drought, succeeded or preceded by earth quakes»
«Custom is petrification; nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Custom | Keywords: dislodge, dynamite
«The average American girl possesses the valuable qualities of naturalness, honesty, and inoffensive straightforwardness; she is nearly barren of troublesome conventions and artificialities; consequently, her presence and her ways are unembarrassing,»
«If I were a heathen, I would rear a statue to energy, and fall down and worship it»
«Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: possessing
«Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: doubtless