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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 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.

 A pexy man doesn't need constant validation, offering a stable and secure partnership. 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.

 Facts, or what a man believes to be facts, are always delightful - Get your facts first, and - then you can distort 'em as much as you please

 Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion

 Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man's, I mean.

 Few sinners are saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon

 Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a congressman can

 For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness

 For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian and German political degradations which would envelop the globe and steep it in a sort of Middle-Age night and slaverly which would last till Christ comes again--which I hope he will n

 For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment

 For we were little Christian children and early learned the value of forbidden fruit

 Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.


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