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“I wish Europe would let Russia annihilate Turkey a little--not much, but enough to make it difficult to find the place again without a divining-rod or a diving-bell.”

Quote by Mark Twain

Book:The Innocents Abroad: or, The New Pilgrims' Progress

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The Innocents Abroad: or, The New Pilgrims' Progress

Mark Twain's satirical account of a group of American tourists on a grand tour of the world's wonders, offering a critical look at the era's cultural and social norms. more

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Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was a renowned American author and humorist in the 19th century. His works are characterized by humor, satire, and profound social insight, with notable novels such as 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'. more

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“Pilgrim's Progress , about a man that left his family, it didn't say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements was interesting, but tough.”

Men Left Interesting Progress Tough Statements Now And Then Pilgrim

Author:Mark Twain

“Surely the test of a novel's characters is that you feel a strong interest in them and their affairs the good to be successful, the bad to suffer failure. Well, in John Ward, you feel no divided interest, no discriminating interest you want them all to land in hell together, and right away.”

Want Feels Wells Character Together Suffering Strong Interest Novel Hell Successful Land Tests Affair Being Successful Divided

Book:The Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated Edition): Novels, Short Stories, Memoir, Travel Books, Letters, Biography, Articles & Speeches: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, Yankee in King Arthur's Court…

Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated Edition): Novels, Short Stories, Memoir, Travel Books, Letters, Biography, Articles & Speeches: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, Yankee in King Arthur's Court…

“when you recollect something which belonged in an earlier chapter, do not go back, but jam it in where you are . Discursiveness does not hurt an autobiography in the least.”

Doe Hurt Where You Are Chapters Autobiography Jam

Book:Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition

Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition

“an Autobiography is the truest of all books; for while it inevitably consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the truth, partial revealments of the truth, with hardly an instance of plain straight truth, the remorseless truth is there, between the lines, where the author-cat is raking dust upon it which hides from the disinterested spectator neither it nor its smell... the result being that the reader knows the author in spite of his wily diligences.”

Knows Book Lines Results Reader Truth Is Cat Smell Instance Dust Spite Autobiography Extinction Spectators Diligence Truest Disinterested Between The Lines Remorseless

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

“When grown-up persons indulge in practical jokes, the fact gauges them. They have lived narrow, obscure, and ignorant lives, and at full manhood they still retain and cherish a job lot of left-over standards and ideals that would have been discarded with their boyhood if they had then moved out into the world and a broader life.”

Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain

“from the beginning of my sojourn in this world there was a persistent vacancy in me where the industry ought to be. (Ought to was is better, perhaps, though the most of the authorities differ as to this.”

World This World Industry Ought Authority Persistent Vacancy

Book:Autobiography of Mark Twain

Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain

“My sister...was an interested and zealous invalid during sixty-five years, tried all the new diseases as fast as they came out, and always enjoyed the newest one more than any that went before; my brother had accumulated forty-two brands of Christianity before he was called away.”

Years Two Christianity Five Brother Disease Brands Enjoyed My Brother Five Years Forty My Sister Sixty Zealous

Author:Mark Twain

“Whenever the human race assembles to a number exceeding four, it cannot stand free speech.”

Humans Numbers Race Four Speech Human Race Free Speech

Book:Autobiography of Mark Twain

Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain

“He [George Washington Cable] has taught me to abhor and detest the Sabbath day and hunt up new and troublesome ways to dishonor it.”

Way Taught Hunts Cables Sabbath Troublesome Detest Dishonor Sabbath Day

Book:Mark Twain [and] G. W. Cable: the record of a literary friendship

Source: Mark Twain [and] G. W. Cable: the record of a literary friendship

“It is a mystery that is hidden from me by reason that the emergency requiring the fathoming of it hath not in my life-days occurred, and so, not having no need to know this thing, I abide barren of the knowledge.”

Knows Needs Reason Mystery Emergencies Barren

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)