Mark Twain Quotes, Brave Quotes, Danger Quotes

How superbly brave is the Englishman in the presence of the awfulest forms of danger and death; and how abject in the presence of any and all forms of hereditary rank.

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Is it, perhaps, possible that there are two kinds of Civilization-one for home consumption and one for the heathen market?

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Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.

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Honest poverty is a gem that even a king might be proud to call his own - but I wish to sell out

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While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.

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France has usually been governed by prostitutes

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Every person is a book, each year a chapter.

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It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient.

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There is nothing so annoying as a good example!!

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Missionarying was a better thing in those days than it is in ours. All you had to do was to cure the head savage´s sick daughter by a miracle- a miracle like the miracle of Lourdes in our day, for instance- and immediately that head savage was your convert, and filled to the eyes with a new convert´s enthusiasm. You could sit down and make yourself easy now. He would take the ax and convert the rest of the nation himself.

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Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my experimenting with it, it is I who suffer, not the state.

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Honesty is often the best policy, but sometimes the appearance of it is worth six of it.

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In God We Trust. It is the choicest compliment that has ever been paid us, and the most gratifying to our feelings. It is simple, direct, gracefully phrased; it always sounds well - In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true.

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I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.

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Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right.

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All scenery in California requires distance to give it its highest charm.

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Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.

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Distance lends enchantment to the view.

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When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.

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I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.

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