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«There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life that he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Boys,
Life
| Keywords:
constructed, dig, raging, rightly
«What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.»
«Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.»
«O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief... for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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«It's good sportsmanship not to pick up lost balls while they are still rolling»
«Vote: The only commodity that is peddleable without a license»
«What's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?»
«I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me.»
«By the etiquette of war, it is permitted to none below the rank of newspaper correspondent to dictate to the general in the field»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Etiquette,
War
| Keywords:
correspondent, correspondents, dictate, etiquette, permitted, rank
«I, Mark Twain being of sound mind, have spent everything»
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