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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 Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness

 Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows

 Our consciences take no notice of pain inflicted on others until it reaches a point where it gives pain to us.

 Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else

 Ours is a mongrel language which started with a child's vocabulary of three hundred words, and now consists of two hundred and twenty-five thousand; the whole lot, with the exception of the original and legitimate three hundred, borrowed, stolen, smo

 Ours is the "land of the free" nobody denies that nobody challenges it. (Maybe it is because we won't let other people testify.)

 Part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves, and of how they felt and thought and talked, and what queer enterprises they sometimes engaged in

 Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside

 Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

 Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

 Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

 People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.

 People born to be hanged are safe in water.

 People ought to start dead and then they would be honest so much earlier.

 Perseverance is a principle that should be commendable in those who have judgment to govern it


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