Mark Twain Quotes, Biblical Quotes, Men Quotes

I was educated, I was trained, I was a Presbyterian and I knew how these things are done. I knew that in Biblical times if a man committed a sin the extermination of the whole surrounding nation-cattle and all-was likely to happen. I knew that Providence was not particular about the rest, so that He got somebody connected with the one He was after.

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isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.

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We were good boys, good Presbyterian boys, and loyal and all that; anyway, we were good Presbyterian boys when the weather was doubtful; when it was fair, we did wander a little from the fold.

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One of my theories is that the hearts of men are about alike, no matter what their skin color.

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In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination

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Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer

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There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

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Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

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What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.

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Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

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There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

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Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

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There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.

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When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

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You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do

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Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well.

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It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.

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It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork.

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A man can be a Christian or a patriot, but he can't legally be a Christian and a patriot - except in the usual way: one of the two with the mouth, the other with the heart.

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By and by when each nation has 20,000 battleships and 5,000,000 soldiers we shall all be safe and the wisdom of statesmanship will stand confirmed.

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