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«Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is wrong. There is no other time.»
«Words in haste do friendships waste.»
«When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn't know»
«A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain»
«Frankness is a jewel; only the young can afford it»
«For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness»
«Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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lumpy, solid, stretched, Switzerland, thin-skinned, thin
«A street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once not oftener.»
«Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide.»
«I never let schooling interfere with my education.»
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