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Letter "M" » Mark Twain Quotes
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«I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating»
«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»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
artificiality, caprices, the Convention, whim
«You should never do anything wicked and lay it on your brother, when it is just as convenient to lay it on some other boy»
«But we are fearfully and wonderfully made, and we glorious Americans will occasionally astonish the God that created us when we get a fair start»
«Once you put it down, you simply can't pick it up»
«Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded»
«The real yellow peril: Gold»
«Good wine needs no bush; a jug is the thing»
«The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf»
«It is hard enough luck being a monarch, without being a target also»
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