Mark Twain Quotes, Peace Quotes, Thinking Quotes

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

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A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.

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My advice to girls: first, don't smoke - to excess; second, don't drink - to excess; third, don't marry - to excess.

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When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of your loss.

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I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds.

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In all the ages the Roman Church has owned slaves, bought and sold slaves, authorized and encouraged her children to trade in them. . . . There were the texts; there was no mistaking their meaning; . . . she was doing in all this thing what the Bible had mapped out for her to do. So unassailable was her position that in all the centuries she had no word to say against human slavery.

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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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Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together!

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Optimist: day-dreamer in his small clothes.

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In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

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And how moving is the eloquence of the untaught when it is the heart that is speaking!

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The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right.

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The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.

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What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.

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Humorists of the 'mere' sort cannot survive. Humor is only a fragrance, a decoration.

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There are two things nobody should ever have to watch being made, sausage and laws.

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If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loudly. Do not compound mispronunciation with inaudibility

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Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick.

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It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right

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When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.

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