Quote by Mark Twain
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Other quotes by Mark Twain

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. – Mark Twain

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Education
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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there, lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again, and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. – Mark Twain

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Cats
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We do not deal much in facts when we are contemplating ourselves. – Mark Twain

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Self
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Opera
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A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera. – Robertson Davies

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Opera

I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking. – Frank Lloyd Wright

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Opera

I love Italian opera — its so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted face. I like the Italians who run all on impulse, and dont care about their immortal souls, and dont worry about the ultimate. – D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

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Opera

I never was an opera fan — about twenty-five musically supreme masterpieces in this curious medium apart. – Hans Keller

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Opera

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I broke down while at Oxford, was rejected by a record number of medical tribunals during the War, and finally got permission to leave Oxford and do civilian work till the War ended. – Leonard Alfred George Strong

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