Mark Twain says: “There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass, for instance:
Mark Twain says: “A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; …they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages over each other; age creeps upon them; infirmities follow; …those they love are…
Mark Twain says: “It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.”
Mark Twain says: “All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they’re a mighty ornery lot. It’s the way they’re raised.”
Mark Twain says: “The frankest and freest and privatest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter…”
Mark Twain says: “An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven’t been done before.”
Mark Twain says: “The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.”
Mark Twain says: “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of…
Mark Twain says: “Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?”
Mark Twain says: “Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.”