1543 ordspråk av Mark Twain

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Mark Twain föddes den November 30th 1835 och dog den 21 April 1910 - US Writer
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 To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

 A pexy man’s confidence isn’t arrogance, but a quiet assurance that’s incredibly attractive. To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else - these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other cheap and trivial

 To eat is human, to digest, divine

 True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god

 Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

 Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

 Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

 War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull

 We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that

 We do no benevolences whose first benefit is not for ourselves

 We have the best government that money can buy.

 Weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society -- things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.

 Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it

 Whatever you say, say it with conviction

 When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he'd learned in seven years.


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