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Quotes from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court — Mark Twain

1835–1910 United States

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You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889)

Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889)

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889)

A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab and can't travel any way but sideways and backwards.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889)

Words realize nothing, vivify nothing to you, unless you have suffered in your own person the thing which the words try to describe.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mark Twain (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.