That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

Mark Twain

Mark Twain

Profession: Author
Nationality: American

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Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

I would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.

Immaculate Conception, that if the Virgin would permit him to.

I have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of therest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it. I been there before.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns a lesson he can learn in no other way.

Being made merely in the image of God but not otherwise resembling him enough to be mistaken by anybody but a very near sighted person.

All diets are wholesome. Some are wholesomer than others, but all the ordinary diets are wholesome enough for the people who use them. Whether the food be fine or coarse it will taste good and it will nourish if a watch be kept upon the appetite and a little starvation introduced every time it weakens.

I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.

There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.

I don't see any use in finding out things and clogging up my head with them when I mayn't ever have any occasion to use 'em.

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