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Place·Hannibal✕clear

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is the lightning that does the work.

1908

★ 1.2

Essay · Philosophical literature

Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

1910

★ 1.2

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

Pudd'nhead Wilson · 1894

★ 1.3

October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.

Pudd'nhead Wilson · 1894

★ 1.3

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is Left out of it.

1897

★ 1.3

We believe that out of the public school grows the greatness of a nation.

1900

★ 1.3

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

The Mysterious Stranger · 1910

★ 1.3

No man has a wholly undiseased mind; that in one way or another all men are mad.

1910

★ 1.3

The chances are that a man cannot get into congress now without resorting to arts and means that should render him unfit to go there.

The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today · 1873

★ 1.3

A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.

1876

★ 1.3

April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.

Pudd'nhead Wilson · 1894

★ 1.3

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live.

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World · 1897

★ 1.3

Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World · 1897

★ 1.3

Virtue never has been as respectable as money.

The Innocents Abroad · 1869

★ 1.4

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World · 1897

★ 1.4

Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized friend and benefactor of the erring, the forsaken, the old, and weary, and broken of heart, whose burdens be heavy upon them, and who would lie down and be at rest.

1883

★ 1.9

Letter · Religious literature

It is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history...and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies.

1910

★ 1.9

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

A Tramp Abroad · 1880

★ 2.0

Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.

1906

★ 2.0

There's a good spot tucked away somewhere in everybody. You'll be a long time finding it, sometimes.

1910

★ 2.0

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