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作者：Mark Twain [全部名言]

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“A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.”

— Mark Twain · Desire

“The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.”

— Mark Twain · No category

“I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.”

— Mark Twain · No category

“Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.”

— Mark Twain · No category

“I was born modest. Not all over, but in spots.”

— Mark Twain · No category

“I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.”

— Mark Twain · Opinions

“Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.”

— Mark Twain · Opinions

“When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.”

— Mark Twain · No category

“We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.”

— Mark Twain · Talent

“When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.”

— Mark Twain · Memory

“The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.”

— Mark Twain · No category

“Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.”

— Mark Twain · No category

“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds upon the heel that crushes it.”

— Mark Twain · No category

“The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.”

— Mark Twain · Community

“To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know, I've done it a thousand times.”

— Mark Twain · No category

“By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean.”

— Mark Twain · No category

“Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.”

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“Sacred cows make the best hamburgers.”

— Mark Twain · No category

“Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.”

— Mark Twain · No category

“The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong; he can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it in a nice and benevolent and affectionate way.”

— Mark Twain · No category