So many limitations are mostly in our minds. We may for instance think that people will disapprove because we are too tall, too old or balding. But these things mostly matter when you think they matter. Because you become self-conscious andworried about what people may think. And people pic...
their ancestors, but when they think of their grandfather, they have to stop."Mark? Twain replied: "when the French are fine, they always want to know who their father is, but it's hard to know."When mark? When twain was a little-known writer, he was introduced to general grant.
) the little circumstance of his cabin-mates in Montana losing small valuables from time to time, until at last, these things having been invariably found on Mr. Twain's person or in his "trunk" (newspaper he rolled his traps
Abel said:” Twain was a boy and an old ma 53、n, but never was he a man.” In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, we can find many words and phrases that were used vividly to describe the things that happened, such as I went along slow then, and I wasnt right down certain ...
If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way. Mark Twain “′Classic′ – a book which people praise and don't read.” Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a...
It is too early, yet, to arrange the verdict, the returns are not all in. When they are all in, I think that they will show that the world was made for man; but we must not hurry, we must patiently wait till they are all in. — Mark Twain Attributed. ...
Twain went to Europe to poke fun at it and to make us laugh. The product of the frontier thought he could see where form was growing hollow and becoming a fraud. Whatever a short story may be—and this is not the place to attempt to say exactly what it is or should be—we can ...
things.My eye passes IightIy over no singIe trifIe;it strives to touch and hoId cIoseIy each thing its gaze rests upon.Some sights are pIeasant,fiIIing the heart with happiness;but some are miserabIy pathetic.To these Iatter I do not shut my eyes,for they,too,are part of Iife....
They know my room number. They didn’t come into the wrong room.” What he said made all the people present laugh heartily. But that night Mark Twain slept well. Do you know why? That was because all the waiters in the hotel were driving the mosquitoes away for him during the whole ...
He was always trying new things, and always going to new places. Even in his literary career, he was never satisfied with what he achieved.vb) patriotic: It refers to Mark Twains profound love for his country with its robust people and beautiful scenery and its lofty ideals. It m 36、...