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Twain quotes

  • And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    St Matthew 5:41.

  • All modernAmericanliterature comesfromonebook by MarkTwain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing good since.

    - Ernest Millar Hemingway
      The Green Hills of  Africa, ch.1.

  • Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till earth and sky stand presently at God's great Judgement seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand facetoface, tho'theycome from the ends of the earth.

    - (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
      'The Ballad of East and West'.

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