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«Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Example
| Keywords:
example, good example, harder, put up
«We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that»
«God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
God
| Keywords:
board, boarded, boarding, boarding school, Board of, idiot, practice, school, school board, The Idiot, The school
«Humor is tragedy plus time»
«To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
achievement, composition, compositions, condense, condensed, difficulty, diffuse, diffused, diffuses, diffusing, express, flash, flashed, flashing, glittered, glittering, ideas, in a flash, luminous, ought, page, paper, paragraph, paragraphing, paragraphs, prize, prizing, rank, ranked, rankest, ranking, rare, reduced, sentence, sentenced, sentencing, squandered, squandering, squanders, worthy
«Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.»
«One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
differences, nine, Nine Lives, strike out, striking
«A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself as a liar»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Men
| Keywords:
acknowledges, liar, truthful
«How empty is theory in the presence of fact»
«For business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Self-interest
| Keywords:
outward, preserve, reasons, sanity, signs
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