Mark Twain Quotes, Dog Quotes, Selfish Quotes

Word it as softly as you please, the spirit of patriotism is the spirit of the dog and wolf. The moment there is a misunderstanding about a boundary line or a hamper of fish or some other squalid matter, see patriotism rise, and hear him split the universe with is war-whoop. The spirit of patriotism being in its nature jealous and selfish, is just in man's line, it comes natural to him - he can live up to all its requirements to the letter; but the spirit of Christianity is not in its entirety possible to him.

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Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone-if still alive.

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Chastity - you can carry it too far.

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The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten

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Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side

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The Creator made Italy from designs by Michelangelo.

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I do not allow my schooling to interfere with my education

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When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.

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Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

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Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum.

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If they [the dead] should speak, it would be found that in matters of opinion no departed person was exactly what he had passed for in life. They would realise, deep down, that they, and whole nations along with them, are not really what they seem to be-and never can be.

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You can't keep a juvenile moral institution alive on two displays of its sash per year.

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Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

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I'm merely running some errands. This is now off the record.

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This is the only sane clerical the earthquake has exposed to view yet.

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Always do what's right. That will gratify some and surprise the rest.

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One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

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Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.

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In Austria an editor who can write well is valuable, but he is not likely to remain so unless he can handle a sabre with charm.

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Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.

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