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The Twain Well Met: Epigrams by Mark Twain; The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
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www.thehypertexts.com/Epigrams_in_Literature_and_Poetry...
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1835 - 1910. True name Samuel Langhorne Clemens. American humorist, satirist, writer, and lecturer, author of "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and "Adventures of Tom Sawyer" ... Quotations for Every Mood ... source: "Mark Twain's Notebook"
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www.dedicatio.com/authors/Twain,Mark
www.dedicatio.com/authors/Twain,Mark
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Note: Several authors are noted for their epigrams, including Mark Twain and Oscar Wilde. One of Wilde's epigrams is “I can resist everything except temptation.â ... [Middle English, from Old French epigramme, from Latin epigramma, from Greek, from epigraphein, to mark the surface, inscribe : epi-, epi- + graphein,
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dictionary.reference.com/browse/epigram
dictionary.reference.com/browse/epigram
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Distilled wisdom in the tradition of Mark Twain, H.L. Mencken, Epictetus, Samuel Johnson and La Rochefoucauld. If you love epigrams and quotations, you'll be delighted by the original mind at work here.
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[Middle English, from Old French epigramme, from Latin epigramma, from Greek, from epigraphein, to mark the surface, inscribe : epi-, epi- + graphein, to write.] ... Several authors are noted for their epigrams, including Mark Twain and Oscar Wilde. One of Wilde's epigrams is “I can resist everything except temptation.”...
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www.answers.com/topic/epigram
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Several authors are noted for their epigrams, including Mark Twain and Oscar Wilde. One of Wilde's epigrams is “I can resist everything except temptation.” ... Famous Quotes By Mark Twain All Quotations By Mark Twain. Largest Quote Site On The Net. The-Quote-Site.com See your message here...
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Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910); American author, master of hussmor and sarcasm ... If everybody was satisfied with himself there would be no heroes. -- Mark Twain, Autobiography ... Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense. -- Mark Twain, Notebook (1888)
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www.positiveatheism.org/hist/quotes/twain.htm
www.positiveatheism.org/hist/quotes/twain.htm
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Today very few copies of the Territorial Enterprise from Mark Twain's days exist. Much of Twain's writing for the Enterprise survives only as undated clippings from his personal scrapbooks or as reprints from contemporary newspapers of his time.
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www.twainquotes.com/teindex.html
www.twainquotes.com/teindex.html
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Mark Twain's description of 'the damned human race' is sadly apt for the folly of the species, and if Fitts' translation is perhaps stronger with regard to things as they were when he translated, never fear: the damned human race will come around and make other parts of the text once again just as topical as they were...
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