Quotes from Mark Twain

the lawful slave of a scion of slaves

LEGEND OF THE SPECTACULAR RUIN The

They had been heritors and subjects of cruelty and outrage so long that nothing could have startled them but a kindness.

Never let your education interfere with your learning.

History don't repeat itself, but it rhymes. Plans are worthless but planning is everything.

as the Good Book says. I'm a laying up sin and suffering for us both

In this world one must be like everybody else if he doesn't want to provoke scorn or envy or jealousy.

Shaxpur.—In the great hand of God I stand and so proclaim mine innocence. Though ye sinless hosts of heaven had foretold ye coming of this most desolating breath, proclaiming it a work of uninspired man, its quaking thunders, its firmament-clogging rottenness his own achievement in due course of nature, yet had not I believed it; but had said the pit itself hath furnished forth the stink, and heaven's artillery hath shook the globe in admiration of it.

Yes; en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns mysef, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'." CHAPTER 9 I WANTED to go and look at a place right about the middle of the island that I'd found when

She said, The future is secure—I can wait, and enjoy the waiting. The most of her lost interests revived. She took up music again, and languages, drawing, painting, and the other long-discarded delights of her maidenhood. She was happy once more, and felt again the zest of life.

Then the old man got to cussing, and cussed everything and everybody he could think of, and then cussed them all over again to make sure he hadn't skipped any, and after that he polished off with a kind of a general cuss all round, including a considerable parcel of people which he didn't know the names of, and so called them what's-his-name, when he got to them, and went right along with his cussing.

De todos los animales, el hombre es el único que es cruel. Es el único que infringe dolor por el placer de hacerlo.

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even      the undertaker will be sorry. —Pudd'nhead Wilson's      Calendar

ain't a-going to no more. But I reckon I got to light out for

Du moment, madame, où cette mère dénaturée ôte ce qu'elle donna

Mr. Young observed that life was a sad, sad thing — "because the joy of every new marriage a man contracted was so apt to be blighted by the inopportune funeral of a less recent bride.

The spider looks for the merchant who doesn't advertise so he can spin a web across his door and lead a life of undisturbed peace.

berth in a storm, for they were familiar with marksmanship and doubted if the lightning could hit that small stick at a distance of a mile and a half

To dash a half-truth in the world's eyes is the surest way of blinding it altogether.

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Now I know you'll tell me," said the lady. "The names of the first two disciples were—" "DAVID AND GOLIATH!" Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of the scene.

But I never stated not anything, by no means allow on; stored it to myself; it's the high-quality way; you then don't haven't any quarrels, and don't get into no trouble.

and they went out on

If they wanted us to call them kings and dukes, I hadn't no objections, 'long as it'd keep peace inside the family; and it warn't no need to tell Jim, so I didn't tell him.  If I in no way learnt not anything else out of pap, I learnt that the exceptional manner to get alongside along with his type of people is to let them have their personal way.