Mark Twain Quotes, Animal Quotes, Men Quotes

Man is the only slave. And he is the only animal who enslaves. He has always been a slave in one form or another, and has always held other slaves in bondage under him in one way or another. In our day, he is always some man's slave for wages, and does that man's work; and this slave has other slaves under him for minor wages, and they do his work. The higher animals are the only ones who exclusively do their own work and provide their own living.

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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

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I was in one of the most grand attitudes I ever struck, with my arm stretched up pointing to the sun. It was a noble effect. You could see the shudder sweep the mass like a wave.

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I am dead to adverbs; they cannot excite me. To misplace an adverb is a thing which I am able to do with frozen indifference; it can never give me a pang. There are subtleties which I cannot master at all - they confuse me, they mean absolutely nothing to me - and this adverb plague is one of them.

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Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation.

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Wine is a clog to the pen, not an inspiration.

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Adam was the author of sin, and I wish he had taken out an international copyright on it.

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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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In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him.

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No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.

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Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

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Who are the oppressors? The few: the King, the capitalist, and a handful of other overseers and superintendents. Who are the oppressed? The many: the nations of the earth; the valuable personages; the workers; they that make the bread that the soft-handed and idle eat.

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Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.

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There is nothing to be learned from the second kick of a mule.

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Be good and you'll be lonesome

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I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and they would be honest so much earlier.

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There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather... In the spring I have counted one hundred and twenty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours.

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If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.

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A man's house burns down. The smoking wreckage represents only a ruined home that was dear through years of use and pleasant associations. By and by, as the days and weeks go on, first he misses this, then that, then the other thing. And when he casts about for it he finds that it was in that house. Always it is an essential - here was but one of its kind. It cannot be replaced. It was in that house. It is irrevocably lost...It will be years before the tale of lost essentials is complete, and not till then can he truly know the magnitude of his disaster.

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