For a little while, hope made a show of reviving-not with any reason to back it, but only because it is its nature to revive when the spring has not been taken out of it by age and familiarity with failure.

Mark Twain

Mark Twain

Profession: Author
Nationality: American

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I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse..

All life demands change, variety, contrast—else there is small zest to it.

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.

If a stranger called and interrupted you, you said with your hearty tongue, "I'm glad to see you," and said with your heartier soul, "I wish you were with the cannibals and it was dinner-time."

What you doin' with this gun?

Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.

The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it--when unpopular.

When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

The Vesuvius of today is a very poor affair compared to the mighty volcano of Kilauea, in the Sandwich Islands, but I am glad I visited it. It was well worth it.

Never let your education interfere with your learning.

The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race.

I DO know lots of things that I don't remember, and remember lots of things that I don't know. It's so with every educated person.

One can be both entertained and educated and not know the difference.

WE ARE THE CANAANITES. WE ARE THEY THAT HAVE BEEN DRIVEN OUT OF THE LAND OF CANAAN BY THE JEWISH ROBBER, JOSHUA.