1219 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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 Etiquette requires us to admire the human race

 Even Noah got no salary for the first six months partly on account of the weather and partly because he was learning navigation.

 Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution

 Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody

 Every time I reform in one direction I go overboard in another.

 Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.

 Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.

 Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right

 Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold

 Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

 Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on ''The Survival of the Fittest.'' These are illustrious names, this is a mighty doctrine: nothing can ever remove it from its firm base, nothing dissolve it, but evolution.

 Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea! -- incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.

 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

 Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use of this capital while it is new

 Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.


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