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«To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.»
«The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
charitable, edifices, politeness, ungraceful
«One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.»
«Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. (The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.)»
«Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Truth
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aggravated, aggravates, aggravating
«Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.»
«A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words... the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
electrically, intensely, prompt, prompter
«The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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banner, carrying, cowards, marching, procession, processions
«There is more real pleasure to be gotten out of a malicious act, where your heart is in it, than out of thirty acts of a nobler sort.»
«From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any first and foremost object but one - to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for himself.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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cradle, Cradle To The Grave, first and foremost, foremost, peace of mind
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