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Directory of Mark Twain's maxims, quotations, and various opinions:

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Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
- Following the Equator, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar

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War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.
- Life on the Mississippi

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Mr. Roosevelt is the Tom Sawyer of the political world of the twentieth century; always showing off; always hunting for a chance to show off; in his frenzied imagination the Great Republic is a vast Barnum circus with him for a clown and the whole world for audience; he would go to Halifax for half a chance to show off and he would go to hell for a whole one.
- Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3 (2015)

Theodore Roosevelt in hunting clothes.
From Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division


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