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refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.”
- "Chronicle of Young Satan"
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"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.” ~ Mark Twain
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Mark Twain has a thought about: THE NIGHT
“I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race--never quite sane in the night.”
- Mark Twain's Autobiography"
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One of the greatest American authors, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, traveled extensively. His journeys gave him …
#culture #travel #marktwain
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Mark Twain has a thought about: SWEARING
“MARK Twain Declares That His Wife Made Him Swear Off Swearing.”
- Washington Post, 16 December 1906
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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
(一歩先へ行くための秘訣は、まず始めることだ。)
#MarkTwain #Quotes
#memes #memesdaily #funny #comedy #humor #jokes #laughs #propaganda #DeepState #Orwell #MarkTwain
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“A magisterial collection. A combination of Bukowski’s Last Night of the Earth and Orwell’s 1984.”
#books #poetry
On his way to Jerusalem, General Grant stopped in Constantinople just as #MarkTwain did, and in letters home, commented with concern about scenes of refugees – namely Bulgarian Jews – who had fled the notoriously anti-Semitic Russian invaders during the just-concluded Russo-Turkish War.
Interestingly, the newly promoted Union General #WilliamSherman (of Sherman’s March) was scheduled to travel with #MarkTwain, but had to drop out to go on a diplomatic mission to Mexico, to President Benito Juarez on military matters, after the French withdrawal and the fall of Emperor Maximilian.
The steamship Quaker City
#MarkTwain also visited the Holy Lands during this time period, as a special correspondent for Alta, traveling aboard the steamship Quaker City, the first luxury cruise ship of its kind, which faced pirates along the way.
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Mark Twain has a thought about: TEACHING
“It is noble to teach oneself, but still nobler to teach others--and less trouble.
- Doctor Van Dyke speech, 1906
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Mark Twain has a thought about: INTELLIGENCE
“He wasn't a very heavy weight, intellectually. His head was an hourglass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.”
- A Connecticut Yankee ,,,
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Mark Twain has a thought about: LIFE
“Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others- his last breath.”
- "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar"
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As more Trump voters become disillusioned, America faces a real test. Yes, many deserve condemnation. But if leaving a political con requires public self-annihilation, many will stay in it. Truth cannot survive if it arrives only as social death.
#MarkTwain #Trumpism #Democracy
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Mark Twain has a thought about: IMPERIALISM
“I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.”
- Boston Herald, 16 October 1900
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🛥 📖 #OTD in the #History of #Literature 9 April 1859, following a two-and-a-half-year apprenticeship, 23-year-old #SamuelClemens, who would later adopt the nom de plume #MarkTwain, received his official steamboat pilot’s license for the Mississippi River. [1]
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Mark Twain has a thought about: A FAILURE
“It is not in the least likely that any life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret judgment of the person who lived it.”
- Mark Twain's Notebook
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Mark Twain has a thought about: A FAILURE
“It is not in the least likely that any life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret judgment of the person who lived it.”
- Mark Twain's Notebook
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#MarkTwain spurned the Chinese Exclusive Act as “a proposal to return from the nineteenth to the eleventh century, and convert to the use of a modern free republic something in the likeness of a medieval edict against the Jews.”
“I neither a Republican nor a Democrat — for any length of time. Vacillation is my particular forte.” #MarkTwain
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Mark Twain has a thought about: WEAKNESS
“The weakest of all weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fire.”
-The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
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I feel seen.
I would add to nonfiction response.
4-I can’t believe the author missed a gigantic point.
For example. I’m reading a book on #MarkTwain, who was obviously ADHD, and the author completely misses it.
Some may call this "Twainian"? idk and idc...
Its cool.
#MarkTwain #Missourian #IndieAuthor #MonitizationFree
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Reading: #MarkTwain 's "The #War Prayer" (1905), a bitter satire.
"O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire... help us to wring the hearts of their widows"
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Mark Twain has a thought about: LUCK
“It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often, and so undeservedly succeed, when the informed and the experienced fail.”
- Mark Twain in Eruption
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I’m reading this very thick book on #MarkTwain, written by Ron Chernow and he completely misses that Twain was obviously ADHD and a chronic depressive. All his attempts to penetrate Twains psyche feel like time wasted searching further sensational instead of taking the obvious.
#dogs QUOTES ABOUT DOGS #quotes #dogquotes #GrouchoMarx #CharlesSchulz #MarilynMonroe #WillRogers #MarkTwain #AndyRooney
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Mark Twain has a thought about: DILIGENCE
“Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more - restful.”
- Speech 30 March 1901
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