Mark Twain Quotes, War Quotes, Names Quotes

A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them.

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You can go to heaven if you want. I'd rather stay in Bermuda.

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Of the 417 commandments, only a single one of the 417 has found ministerial obedience; multiply and replenish the earth. To it sinner & saint, scholar & ignoramus, Christian & savage are alike loyal.

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The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all.

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If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him.

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Human beings are the only creatures who blush - or who need to.

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Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak.

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A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

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I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases

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Travel is fatal to bigotry.

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Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on.

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

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All you drunkards: Put down the intoxicating Vanity Metrics.

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I hate to hear people say this Judge will vote so and so, because he is a Democrat -- and this one so and so because he is a Republican. It is shameful. The Judges have the Constitution for their guidance; they have no right to any politics save the politics of rigid right and justice when they are sitting in judgment upon the great matters that come before them.

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I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

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Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than a shovel.

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A man may have no bad habits and have worse

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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

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Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

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It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term.

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