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Plain question and plain answe...

Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.

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If you don't read the newspape...

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

Mark Twain 2884 quotes

The best cure for Christianity...

The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.

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A woman springs a sudden repro...

A woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologize.

Mark Twain 2884 quotes

There are no grades of vanity;...

There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

Mark Twain 2884 quotes

There has been only one Christ...

There has been only one Christian. They caught and curcified him-early.

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Grown people everywhere are al...

Grown people everywhere are always likely to cling to the religion they were brought up in.

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The slowness of one section of...

The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable.

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Few of us stand prosperity; an...

Few of us stand prosperity; another man's I mean.

Mark Twain 2884 quotes

God could create the world in ...

God could create the world in six days because he didn't have to make it compatible with the previous version.
Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company

Mark Twain 2884 quotes

If you want love and abundance...

If you want love and abundance in your life, give it away.

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Life is but a dream, a grotesq...

Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream.

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Concerning the difference betw...

Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass.

Mark Twain 2884 quotes

We like a man to come right ou...

We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks- if we agree with him.

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It is better to give than rece...

It is better to give than receive- especially advice.

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Gold in its native state is bu...

Gold in its native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and only lowborn metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an ostentatious glitter. However, like the rest of the world, I still go on underrating men of gold and glorifying men of mica.

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Unconsciously we all have a st...

Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very simple one, and is this: we admire them, we envy them, for great qualities we ourselves lack. Hero worship consists in just that. Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do. We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, the

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He said that man's heart was t...

He said that man's heart was the only bad heart in the animal kingdom; that man was the only animal capable of feeling malice, envy, vindictiveness, revengefulness, hatred, selfishness, the only animal that loves drunkenness, almost the only animal that could endure personal uncleanliness and a filthy habitation, the sole animal in whom was fully developed the base instinct called patriotism, the sole animal that robs, persecutes, oppresses and kills members of his own tribe, the sole animal that steals and enslaves

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there was no crime in unconsci...

there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on earth who writes or speaks commits it every day and not merely once or twice but every time he open his mouth there is nothing of our own in it except some slight change born of our temperament, character, environment, teachings and associations

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the size of a misfortune is no...

the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider's measurement of it but only by the measurements applied to it by the person specially affected by it.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....