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PROVERBIUM SENIORUM — Quotations that have aged well

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Tag: Mark Twain

Posted on September 19, 2021September 19, 2021

” ‘Classic.’ A book which people praise and don’t read.”—Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens, American author & humorist, 1835-1910

Posted on September 6, 2021

“Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.”—Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens, American author & humorist, 1835-1910

Posted on July 23, 2021July 23, 2021

“If a man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve the man, but degrade the cat.”—Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens, American author & humorist, 1835-1910

Posted on June 15, 2021

“Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”—Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens, American author & humorist, 1835-1910

Posted on May 22, 2021

“Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.”—Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens, American author & humorist, 1835-1910

Posted on February 11, 2021February 11, 2021

“The very ink which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.”—Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens, American humorist, 1835-1910

Posted on January 29, 2021January 29, 2021

“Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.”—Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens, American humorist, 1835-1910

Posted on December 19, 2020December 19, 2020

“There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.”—Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens, American humorist, 1835-1910

Posted on November 19, 2020

“All kings is mostly rapscallions.”—Jim in ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ (by Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens, American humorist, 1835-1910)

Posted on October 13, 2020

“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes.”—Mark Twain, American author & humorist, 1835-1910

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