"I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.












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More Mark Twain quotes
"I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!
"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.
"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.
"I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.
"We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove li...
"It is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those 3 unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the pruden...
"Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
"When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.
"An honest politician is an oxymoron.
"A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat a...
"It usually takes me two or three days to prepare an impromptu speech.
"The lack of money is the root of all evil.
"This nation is like all the others that have been spewed upon the earth--ready to shout for any cause that will tickle its vanity or fill its pocket. ...
"Humor is tragedy plus time.