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“If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty.”

Quote by Mark Twain

Book:Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches

Work

Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches

This book is a compilation of various literary works including tales, speeches, essays, and sketches, showcasing a range of writing styles and themes. more

Author

Mark Twain

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

“Sometimes I lifted a chicken that warn't roosting comfortable, and took him along. Pap always said, take a chicken when you get achance, because if you don't want him yourself you can easy find somebody that does, and a good deed ain't ever forgot. I never see papa when he didn't want the chicken himself, but that is what he used to say, anyway.”

Ifs Want Doe Said Sometimes Used Easy Comfortable Deeds Excuse Hypocrisy Chickens Good Deeds Want Him Papa

Book:The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays

Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays

“No temperance society which is well officered and which has the real good of our fellow-men in view, will ever get drunk save in the seclusion of its temperance hall.”

Men Wells Real Views Fellows Drinking Drunk Reform Hypocrisy Halls Fellow Man Temperance Seclusion

Author:Mark Twain

“Taking the pledge will not make bad liquor good, but it will improve it.”

Drinking Pledge Liquor Abstinence

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“To be human is to have one's little modicum of romance secreted away in one's composition. One never ceases to make a hero of one's self, (in private,) during life, but only alters the style of heroism from time to time as the drifting years belittle certain gods of his admiration and raise up others in their stead.”

Years Humans Littles Self Romance Certain Style Hero Raises Cease Admiration Heroism Composition Drifting Belittle Raise Up

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…

“If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day.”

Ifs Made Study Ignorance Higher Honor

Book:The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays

Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays

“Protestant parents still keep a Bible handy in the house, so that the children can study it, and one of the first things the little boys and girls learn is to be righteous and holy and not piss against the wall. They study those passages more than they study any others, except those which incite to masturbation. Those they hunt out and study in private.”