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Most Americans remember Mark Twain as the father of Huck Finn’s idyllic cruise through eternal boyhood and Tom Sawyer’s endless summer of freedom and adventure.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

Why are lawyers all uneasy sleepers? Because they lie first on one side, and then on the other, and remain awake all the time.

Money is a bottomless sea, in which honor, conscience, and truth may be drowned.

They are still prolonging the night: dancing, singing, gossiping, postponing the unfortunate necessity of undertaking a day’s work in the fields after a sleepless night.

If you wish to succeed, you should use persistence as your good friends, experience as your reference, prudence as your brother and hope as your sentry.

There are two ways of rising in the world, either by your own industry or by the folly of others.

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won’t taste good.

There was no harm in Sam, but he was always merry and liked a bit of skirt.

Oh, no problem. I’m proud of my son. Very, very proud. And I just wanted you to know that I’ll do anything I can to help him through life’s dangerous sea.

Marriage is like a beleaguered fortress: those who are without outside want to get in, and those within want to get out.

The United States has now set up a loneliness industry.

The instant riches of a mining strike would not be his in the reporting trade, but for making money, his pen would prove mightier than his pickax.

Under no circumstance should we do anything that will benefit ourselves but harm the interest of the state.

We shall fight him (Hitler) by land, we shall fight him by sea, we shall fight him in the air, until, with God’s help, we have rid the earth of his shadow and liberated its peoples from his yoke.

While most of us are only too ready to apply to others the cold winds of criticism, we are somewhat reluctant to give our fellow the warm sunshine of praise.

Our hopes, our hearts, our hands are with those on every continent who are building democracy and freedom.

I see advancing upon all this in hideous onslaught the Nazi War Machine, with its clanking, heel-clicking, dandified Prussian officers, its crafty expert agents fresh from the cowing and tying down of a dozen countries.

The human being longs for a sense of being accomplished, of being able to do things, with his hand, with his mind, with his will.

Then clatter, clatter up the stairs. Johnnie knocked at her door.

A command of English will not only improve the progress of your mind. It will give your assurance; build your self-confidence; lend color to your personality; increase your popularity. Your words are your personality. Your vocabulary is you.

If you love her, bring her to New York, for it is a Heaven. If you hate her, bring her to New York, for it is a Hell.

It was a splendid population — for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home.

We are poor, we are very poor, we are very, very poor, as poor as a church mouse.

She sells sea-shells on the seashore.

We will never parley, we will never negotiate with Hitler or any of his gang.

No problem too large. No business too small.

The past, with its crimes, its follies, and its tragedies, flashes away.

I see also the dull, drilled, docile, brutish masses of the Hun soldiery plodding on like a swarm of crawling locusts.

From them all Mark Twain gained a keen perception of the human race, of the difference between what people claim to be and what they really are.

The Chinese diplomat should be firm in stance, far in sight, swift in wit, qualified in profession, outstanding in talent, noble in character.

The whole city gathered in the square to celebrate the victory, and the crown issued a special decree to reward the brave soldiers who guarded the homeland day and night.