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A group of men in evening clothes looks like a flock of crows, and is just about as inspiring.

A group of men in evening clothes looks like a flock of crows, and is just about as inspiring.

Mark Twain
Men, Clothes, Crow
Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain's Speeches”, p.61, Xist Publishing

I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time.

Mark Twain
Book, Reading, People
Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.475, Univ of California Press

A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase.

Mark Twain
Baby, Angel, Wings

As I slowly grow wise I briskly grow cautious.

Mark Twain
Wise, Grows, Cautious
Mark Twain “Mark Twain on Religion”, Library of Alexandria

Talent without work is useless, thank God

Mark Twain
Thank God, Useless, Talent

Shut the door not that it lets in the cold but that it lets out the coziness.

Mark Twain
Doors, Weather, Cold
Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.53, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

I am losing enough sleep to supply a worn-out army.

Mark Twain
Sleep, Army, Losing
Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.61, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

It is better to be alone than unwelcome. - Eve

Mark Twain
Unwelcome
Mark Twain (2015). “The Diaries of Adam and Eve”, p.13, Xist Publishing

I have been reading the morning paper. I do it every morning-knowing well that I shall find in it the usual depravities and basenesses and hypocrisies and cruelties that make up civilization, and cause me to put in the rest of the day pleading for the damnation of the human race. I cannot seem to get my prayers answered, yet I do not despair.

Mark Twain
Morning, Prayer, Reading

Learning to play two pairs is worth about as much as a college education, and about as costly.

Mark Twain
College, Play, Two

Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures?

Mark Twain
Book, Adventure, Sawyer
Mark Twain (2015). “Tom Sawyer Abroad”, Library of Alexandria

If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the pompous "wisdom" of the considered moral judgments of the present, we will find nothing but error.

Mark Twain
Attitude, Past, Errors

The waves most washed me off the raft sometimes, but I hadn't any clothes on, and didn't mind.

Mark Twain
Clothes, Mind, Sometimes
Mark Twain, Classics HD (2015). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: by Mark Twain (Illustrated and Unabridged)”, p.115, Classics HD

She is not refined. She is not unrefined. She keeps a parrot

Mark Twain
Inspiration, Parrots, Refined

The spirit of wrath - not the words - is the sin; and the spirit of wrath is cursing. We begin to swear before we can talk.

Mark Twain
Wrath, Spirit, Sin
Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.382, Courier Corporation

What a curious kind of fool a girl is. Never been licked in school. What's a licking?

Mark Twain
Girl, School, Fool
Mark Twain (2005). “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.122, Prestwick House Inc

I was an arden Hayes man, but that was natural, for I was pretty young at the time, I have since convinced myself that the political opinioins of a nation are of next to no value, in any case, but that what little rag of value they posess is to be found among the old, rather than among the young.

Mark Twain
Men, Political, Rags

Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteenth century.

Mark Twain
Baseball, Struggle, Expression
Mark Twain (1929). “Stormfield Edition of the Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.].: Mark Twain's speeches”

Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.

Mark Twain
Causes, Moderation, Temperance
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.242, Courier Corporation

The water is clearer than the air, and the air is the air that angels breathe.

Mark Twain
Angel, Air, Water

But we love the Old Travelers. We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie.

Mark Twain
Lying, Traveler, Drivel
Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.111, Velvet Element Books

We do not get ice-cream every where, and so, when we do, we are apt to dissipate to excess.

Mark Twain
Ice Cream, Ice, Excess
Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4416, Delphi Classics

In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore, in the Old Silurian Period the Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long, seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long. There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesome returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

Mark Twain
Years, Two, Rivers

We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.

Mark Twain
Food, Thinking, Toadstools
Mark Twain (2015). “Pudd'nhead Wilson”, p.30, Xist Publishing

The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your leg they don't tell you what to say.

Mark Twain
Fall, Skins, Legs
Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.3305, Delphi Classics

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