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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 The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

 The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

 The Bible is a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology

 The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a privileged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name

 The calamity that comes is never the one we had prepared ourselves for

 The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won't sit upon a cold stove lid, either.

 The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

 The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example

 The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco

 The confidence of ignorance will always overcome the indecision of knowledge

 The convention miscalled 'modesty' has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anybody's whim - anybody's diseased caprice

 The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are

 The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing, it is the thing to watch over and care for and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous. . . .

 The Creator made Italy from designs by Michael Angelo

 The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it


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