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Mark Twain Quotes

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"The only safe and sure way to destroy your enemy is to make him your friend." - Mark Twain
"Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never ever work a day in your life." - Mark Twain
"Mark Twain said the two most important days of your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why."
"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." - Mark Twain
"Mark Twain famously said there are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can."
"As Mark Twain said, 'something along the lines of history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes.'"
"Mark Twain’s famous comment – 'The worst things in my life never actually happened.'"
"Mark Twain has a quote he says eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse can happen for the rest of your day."
"Mark Twain suffered greatly from financial problems."
"Mark Twain once wrote, 'I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.'"
"Buy land, they're not making it anymore." - Mark Twain
"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything." - Mark Twain
"I have never let schooling interfere with education." - Mark Twain
"I think, I probably quoted Mark Twain as saying I was dead for billions of years before I was born and never suffered the smallest inconvenience."
"It's better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you're a fool than to open it and remove all doubt." - Mark Twain
"To say that Mark Twain was a racist is to put too much stock into the uttering of racial slurs in his novels and on rare occasion in letters."
"It's the American consciousness distilled. It really is. This book is not just Huckleberry Finn sort of discovering the immorality of slavery, it's not just the slave looking for freedom. It's also all the fakes and phonies along the way."
"Mark Twain has a similar effect, and we connect him with a smarmy, witty, affectionately curmudgeonly type of writing."
"Mark Twain was actually born Samuel Clemens on November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri."
"It was a standard depth of water that was safe for a steamboat to travel in, equal to 12 feet, or two fathoms, known to boatsmen as "mark twain"."
"Mark Twain would tuck away all sorts of experiences and stories he gained while spending time in the West, traveling to San Francisco and enjoying the weather and fruits that California had to offer."
"Their Hartford house was where Twain would produce some of his most treasured classics."
"Considered an absolute classic of American literature, "Tom Sawyer" set him on a streak of successes."
"In 1884 flesh out one of old Tom Sawyer’s friends for a novel of his own, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"."
""Huckleberry Finn" would take on even more of a socially-conscious slant than much of his previous work."
"Twain poured around $300,000 of his own money trying to keep the Paige typesetter afloat, which is over $9 million by today’s standards."
"Twain and Tesla continued their friendship for years."
"As it turned out, Mark Twain made an incredible prediction."
"If voting made a difference, they wouldn't let us do it" -Mark Twain
"What gets us in trouble is not what we don't know, it's what we know for sure that just ain't so." - Mark Twain
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
"History never repeats, but it often rhymes." - Mark Twain
"Mark Twain is often quoted as saying history doesn't repeat, but it sure does rhyme."
"Life itself is only a vision, a dream." - Mark Twain
"It is easier to fool someone than to convince someone they are being fooled" - Mark Twain
"It's easier to fool someone than to convince them they have been fooled." - Mark Twain
"You know, Mark Twain used to say, 'I like progress. It's change I don't like.'"
"Mark Twain often remarked that he came into the world with the comet and he expected to leave with it as well."
"What Twain does here is he captures the world almost more perfectly because he sees it as a child."
"Mark Twain absolutely deserves all the praise that he gets."
"Travel is fatal to prejudice." - MARK TWAIN
"You don't know me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly."
"History doesn't always repeat, but it does rhyme."
"To paraphrase Mark Twain, the two most important days of my life are the day that I was born and the day I became a community prosecutor."
"I've been reading a lot of Mark Twain."
"On the 19th day, we crossed the Great American desert, 40 memorable miles of bottomless sand, into which the coach wheels sunk from six inches to a foot." - Mark Twain
"Mark Twain dreams of his brother's untimely death and gets every detail of his sibling's demise correct, right down to the color of the flowers and the unique type of casket."
"According to Mark Twain, they are the most delicious fruit known to man."
"Mark Twain said that there are two important days in the life of every person: the first day is the day that you are born, and the second most significant day is when you discover why."
"The set consists of 25 different stories considered to be Mark Twain's complete works at that time."
"I only proposed to stay in Nevada three months... I little thought I would not see the end of that three-month pleasure excursion for six or seven uncommonly long years." - Mark Twain, Roughing It
"Life on the Mississippi is an autobiographical account of the life of Mark Twain."
"Shout out Mark Twain, baby, that's my boy."
"The word [__] that Mark Twain is a literary genius."
"Mark Twain said the secret to making progress is just getting started."