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Mark Twain

What Is Man? and Other Essays

  • Sara Hilalhas quotedlast year
    The Old Man and the Young Man had been conversing. The Old Man had asserted that the human being is merely a machine, and nothing more. The Young Man objected, and asked him to go into particulars and furnish his reasons for his position.
  • Sara Hilalhas quotedlast year
    What are the materials of which a steam-engine is made?
  • Sara Hilalhas quotedlast year
    Men would admire the other engine and rapturously praise it?
  • Sara Hilalhas quotedlast year
    Because its performance is not personal.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    While he was thus hesitating, the following incident occurred.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    This gives it too much distinction, too much prominence, too much credit. It is only the LAST link in a very long chain of turning-points commissioned to produce the cardinal result; it is not any more important than the humblest of its ten thousand predecessors.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    The turning-point of my life
    I
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    ? Now Jean is in her grave!
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    were together; WE WERE A FAMILY! the dream had come true—oh, precisely true, contentedly, true, satisfyingly true! and remained true two whole days.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted3 years ago
    DECEMBER 26TH. The dog came to see me at eight o'clock this morning. He was very affectionate, poor orphan! My room will be his quarters hereafter.
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