Mark Twain Quotes, Years Quotes, Names Quotes

Very well, then, where do we arrive? Where do we arrive with our respect, our homage, our filial affection? At Adam! At Adam, every time. We can't build a monument to a germ, but we can build one to Adam, who is in the way to turn myth in in fifty years and be entirely forgotten in two hundred. We can build a monument and save his name to the world forever, and we'll do it!

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Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

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Ignorance is not, not knowing something. It is knowing what isn't so.

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The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

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Use the right word, not its second cousin.

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Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

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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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More than once I have been humiliated by my resemblance to God the father; He is always longing for the love of His children and trying to get it on the cheapest and laziest terms He can invent.

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I never felt so fervently thankful, so soothed, so tranquil, so filled with the blessed peace, as I did yesterday when I learned that Michael Angelo was dead.

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Rise early. It is the early bird that catches the worm. Don't be fooled by this absurd law; I once knew a man who tried it. He got up at sunrise and a horse bit him.

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History has tried hard to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians. Now, to go and stick one at the very head of the government couldn't be wise.

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Never argue with people who buy ink by the gallon.

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I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes.

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Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

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Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil

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All our acts, reasoned and unreasoned, are selfish

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

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Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse.

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All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it.

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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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