Mark Twain Quotes, Christian Quotes, Country Quotes

This is a Christian country. Why, so is hell. Inasmuch as Strait is the way and narrow is the gate, and few - few - are they that enter in thereat has had the natural effect of making hell the only really prominent Christian community in any of the worlds; but we don't brag of this and certainly it is not proper to brag and boast that America is a Christian country when we all know that certainly five-sixths of our population could not enter in at the narrow gate.

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Those people.... early stricken of God, intellectually - the departmental interpreters of the laws in Washington... can always be depended on to take any reasonably good law and interpret the common sense all out of it.

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Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness.

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I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in either a small way or a large way.

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If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

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When an audience does not complain, it is a compliment, and when it does, it is a compliment, too, if unaccompanied by violence.

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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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He was sunshine most always-I mean he made it seem like good weather.

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Children have but little charity for one another's defects

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Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.

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The new political gospel: public office is private graft.

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A Patriot is someone who stands for his country always, and for his government when it is deserved.

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I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.

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Humor is the good natured side of a truth.

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Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.

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It is easier to stay out than get out.

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An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans.

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When it comes down to pure ornamental cursing, the native American is gifted above the sons of men.

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Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.

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I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they descend to telling the truth about me I consider that this is taking an unfair advantage.

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