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«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.»
«Better a broken promise than none at all.»
«We have nine children now half boys and half girls.»
«Hunger is the handmaid of genius»
«The kernel, the soul - let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances - is plagiarism»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
bulk, bulked, kernel, kernels, plagiarism, substance, utterances
«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»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Adulthood
| Keywords:
adults, engaged, enterprises, pleasantly, queer, queerer, queerest, remind, talked
«Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Teenage
| Keywords:
assertion, assertions, chuckle, chuckles, dense, denser, egotism, intolerance, nineteen, opaque, pathetic, perception, pitiful, self assertion, unconsciousness
«Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.»
«The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Arrogance,
Pride,
Tyranny,
Vanity,
Wealth
| Keywords:
arrogance, offspring, ostentation, The Offspring
«Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Irreverence,
Liberty
| Keywords:
champion, irreverence
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