"Guides cannot master the subtleties of the..." - Quote by Mark Twain
Guides cannot master the subtleties of the American joke.
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“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”
“Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.”
“It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it is for any other foreigner to read the terrible German script.”
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“My mother hated me. Once she took me to an orphanage and told me to mingle”
“[Max Planck] was one of the finest people I have ever known... but he really didn't understand physics, [because] during the eclipse of 1919 he stayed up all night to see if it would confirm the bending of light by the gravitational field. If he had really understood [general relativity], he would have gone to bed the way I did”
“Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.”
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“As an artist one has no home in Europe except in Paris.”
“He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.”
“Character is the backbone of our human culture. Music is the flowering of character.”