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Society and the World
Mark Twain
It was a place of sin, loose women, whiskey and gambling. It was no place for a good Presbyterian, and I did not long remain one.
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Mark Twain
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
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Mark Twain
The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.
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Mark Twain
The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.
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Mark Twain
We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance, and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.
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Mark Twain
What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey .
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Mark Twain
If you want me to give you a two-hour presentation, I am ready today. If you want only a five-minute speech, it will take me two weeks to prepare.
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Mark Twain
If you want me to give you a two-hour presentation, I am ready today. If you want only a five-minute speech, it will take me two weeks to prepare.
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Mark Twain
The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.
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