Mark Twain Trail Quote of the Day – Sunday – December 5, 2021
“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 posses.” Mark Twain
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“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 posses.” Mark Twain
“I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet — I am inclined to expect one.” Mark Twain
“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” Mark Twain
“A great and priceless thing is a new interest! How it takes possession of a man! How it clings to him, how it rides him!” A Tramp Abroad, 1880
“Their very imagination was dead. When you can say that of a man he has struck bottom… there is no lower deep for him.” A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, 1889
“Never regret anything that made you smile.” A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, 1889
“Words are only painted fire, a look is the fire itself. She gave that look, and carried it away to the treasury of heaven, where all things that are divine belong.” A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, 1889
“You can’t reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.” A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, 1889
“You’ve got to admire men that deal in ideas of that size and can tote them around without crutches.” Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, 1883
“Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with.” Mark Twain