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Mark Twain：经典英语语录与格言 - 芙联英语第7页

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“Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre but they are more deadly in the long run.”

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“If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging?”

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“This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.”

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“In our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.”

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“Carlyle said, 'A lie cannot live'; it shows he did not know how to tell them.”

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“It's a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.”

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“In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.”

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“There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.”

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“There ought to be a room in every house to swear in.”

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

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“We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.”

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“Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.”

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“One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives.”

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“Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.)”

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“I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.”

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“A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”

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“Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.”

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“I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.”

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“Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.”

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“We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world.”

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