Always obey your parents - when they are present.
in Mark Twain QuotesForgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
in Mark Twain QuotesThe difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
in Mark Twain QuotesI shall not often meddle with politics, because we have a political Editor who is already excellent and only needs to serve a term or two in the penitentiary to be perfect.
in Mark Twain QuotesWhen the human race has once acquired a superstition nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.
in Mark Twain QuotesI think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception
in Mark Twain QuotesA man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
in Mark Twain QuotesNever refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink- under any circumstances.
in Mark Twain QuotesIdeally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
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