Mark Twain Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Country Quotes

The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

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An inglorious peace is better than a dishonorable war.

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The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from the mass of the nation only-not from its privileged classes.

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for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great. When you are seeking to bring big plans to fruition it is important with whom you regularly associate. Hang out with friends who are like-minded and who are also designing purpose-filled lives. Similarly be that kind of a friend for your friends.

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What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows - it must grow; nothing can prevent it.

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Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

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Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography that exists in print anywhere. It makes Nero an angel of light and leading by contrast.

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Nothing agrees with me. If I drink coffee, it gives me dyspepsia; if I drink wine, it gives me the gout; if I go to church, it gives me dysentery.

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Preachers are always pleasant company when they are off duty.

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These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme.

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In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.

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Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

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Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.

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Franklin said once in one of his inspired flights of malignity-- Early to bed and early to rise Make a man healthy and wealth and wise. As if it were any object to a boy to be healthy and wealthy and wise on such terms.

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Great enterprises usually promise vastly more than they perform.

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I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want to take on trust. It's a classic ... something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

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Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.

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The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

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Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals.

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