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“They did not know it was impossible so they did it”

Mark Twain

“Use the right word, not its second cousin.”

Mark Twain

“Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world — and never will.”

Mark Twain

"Consistency" (5 December 1887). This quote is engraved on Twain's bust in the National Hall of Fame

“He had had much experience of physicians, and said 'the only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not'.”

Mark Twain

Source: Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

“A few fly bites cannot stop a spirited horse.”

Mark Twain

“Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.”

Mark Twain

“She remained both girl and woman to the last day of her life. Under a grave and gentle exterior burned inextinguishable fires of sympathy, energy, devotion, enthusiasm, and absolutely limitless affection.”

Mark Twain

“You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.”

Mark Twain book A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Source: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

“She was not quite what you would call refined.
She was not quite what you would call unrefined.
She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.”

Mark Twain

“The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.”

Mark Twain

"Official Report to the I.I.A.S.", p. 126
Papers of the Adams Family (1939)
Source: Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings

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

Mark Twain

Mark Twain's Notebook (1935)

“The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.”

Mark Twain

Variant: The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in heaven.

“Ah, if he could only die temporarily!”

Mark Twain book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Source: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“H'aint we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority in any town?”

Mark Twain book Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Source: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), Ch. 26
Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn