Quotations quotes by Mark Twain

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"Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever."
"In the real world, the right thing never happens in the right place and the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to make it appear that it has."
"Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man - the biography of the man himself cannot be written."
"All religions issue bibles against him, and say most injurious things about him, but we never hear his side."
"It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive."
"What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense."
"There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice."
"In all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane."