Mark Twain Quotes, Animal Quotes, Eight Quotes

God made all the animals in a single day; he could have swept them all away in the flood and re-created them in one day when they were again needed. Therefore it was an odd idea to save specimens of them for eleven months in the ark, whilst aware that eight persons could not feed or water them by any human possibility. If they were to be preserved by miracle, the ark was not necessary - to let them swim would have answered the purpose and been more indubitably miraculous.

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Unexpected money is a delight. The same sum is a bitterness when you expected more.

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It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.

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Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized friend and benefactor of the erring, the forsaken, the old and weary and broken of heart.

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The equator was wisely put where it is, because if it had been run through Europe all the kings would have tried to grab it.

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Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

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Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

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To one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, seems the loveliest.

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To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

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God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.

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...heaven for climate, and hell for society.

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Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he was alive. I wish they were used more.

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You can't make a life over. Society wouldn't let you if you would.

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Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature!

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We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

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Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin?

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The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.

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I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists, and the opinion of the majority of them would not be worth tuppence in private, but when they speak in print it is the newspaper that is talking (the pygmy scribe is not visible) and then their utterances shake the community like the thunders of prophecy.

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We Americans are the most lavish and showiest and most luxury loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen.

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Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

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