MarkTwainisoneofthemostquotedauthorsever.Therearehundredsofhisquotations(语录)inbooksonpostersandonwebsites.Hereisanexample:"Ifyoutellthetruth,youdon'thavetorememberanything."---MarkTwain.Quotationslikethisonegiveusguidance.Itremindsusthattellingalieismuchmoredifficultthantellingthetruth.Tellingaliemeansyouha...
can become great.Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.Many a small thing has been made large by the right kin d of advertising.Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer...
In most cases, use a comma before a quotation. Within dialogue that contains quoted material, follow the same punctuation rules that apply in all other sentences. Similarly, if a quote is a complete sentence, use appropriate punctuation within the quotation marks. However, if the quote is not...
"Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes is certain for those who are friends."--Richard Bach "Become a connoisseur of happiness. Hang out with optimistic people. Watch how they respond to life. Ask ...
In Mark Twain and Bernard DeVoto (ed.), Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings (1962), 180-181. [Note: As a humorous, irreverent consideration of Man and Christianity, these essays (written c.1909) remained unpublished for over 50 years after Twain’s death (1910), because his ...
Quotationsof Mark TwainRead and enjoy the following sayings of Mark Twain.A man cannot be comfortable without his ownapprovalA man's character may be learned from the adjectives which hehabitually uses in conversation.A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.Age is...
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He urged us not to wait for a brilliant idea before beginning independent research, and emphasized the fact the Lavoisier's first contribution to chemistry was the analysis of a sample of gypsum. He told us that the fields in which the great masters had worked were still fruitful; the ...
I wonder if "an" ever occurs before "haughty" except in a quotation, or whether you can make anything sound like a quotation by adding a word like "goeth"? ~Gary Saul Morson, The Words of Others: From Quotations to Culture, 2011 When he chose, or the exigency demanded, he could salt...
Let us not lament too much the passing of our friends. They are not dead, but simply gone before us along the road which all must travel.—ANTIPHANES (c. 360 B.C.) FragmentAfter the resurrection of the body shall have taken place, being set free from the condition of time, we ...