Quotes from Mark Twain

pertinacity

No Protestant child exists who does not masturbate. That art is the earliest accomplishment his religion confers upon him. Also the earliest her religion confers upon her.

CzÅ'owiek, który nie czyta ksi??ek, nie ma ?adnej przewagi nad tym, który nie potrafi czyta?.

All right, then, I'll go to hell - and tore it up.

Me estoy dando cuenta de que me da igual bañarme si nadie me lo prohíbe.

Monday morning always found him so—because it began another week's slow suffering in school.

In making this substitution I had drawn upon the wisdom of a very remote source—the wisdom of my boyhood—for the true statesman does not despise any wisdom, howsoever lowly may be its origin:

Czytaj?c ksi??ki o zdrowiu, uwa?ajcie. Jeden b??d drukarski mo?e was zabi?.

Eleinte nem tudtam rájönni, hogy miért vagyok, de most már azt hiszem, azért, hogy kikutassam ennek a csodálatos világnak a titkait, hogy boldog legyek és hálát adjak a TeremtÅ'nek azért, mert létrehozta. Azt hiszem, még sokat kell tanulnom – remélem.

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For when a man's soul is starving, what does he care for meat and roof so he can but get that nobler hunger fed?

One of my deepest secrets was my West Point—my military academy. I kept that most jealously out of sight; and I did the same with my naval academy which I had established at a remote seaport. Both were prospering

Kendini çoÄŸunluÄŸun taraf?nda bulduÄŸun an, durup düÅŸünmenin vakti gelmiÅŸ demektir.

KoÅ›cióÅ' d??y do zreformowania innych ludzi. Nie byÅ'oby to zÅ'e, gdyby raz, dla przykÅ'adu chocia?by, sam siÄ™ trochÄ™ zreformowaÅ'.

If books are not good company, where will I find it?

Yo estaba en la creencia de que un mecanismo de gobierno como el de un Estado acabaría con la racha de prosperidad y quería largarme de allí. Pensaba que las acciones mineras que poseía valdrían pronto cien mil dólares, y si alcanzaban esa cotización antes que se aprobase la Constitución, las vendería y me pondría a cubierto de la rutina financiera que el cambio de gobierno iba a traer sobre el país.

You lied to the undertaker, and said your health was failing--a wholly commendable lie, since it cost you nothing and pleased the other man.

El trabajo consiste en lo que el hombre se ve obligado a hacer, y que el juego consiste en lo que el hombre no se ve obligado a hacer.

She was reserved, and kept things to herself, as the truly great always do.

I think that all this courteous lying is a sweet and loving art, and should be cultivated.

whithersoever he turned, the bars and shackles of civilization shut him in and bound him hand and foot.

I wasn't feeling so brash as I was before, but kind of ornery, and humble, and to blame, somehow—though I hadn't done nothing. But that's always the way; it don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway.

presence, and leaving experts in charge.

The man who speaks an injurious truth lest his soul be not saved if he do otherwise, should reflect that that sort of a soul is not strictly worth saving.