Mark Twain Quotes, Characteristics Quotes

There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.

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it is not wise to keep the fire going under a slander unless you can get some large advantage out of keeping it alive. Few slanders can stand the wear of silence.

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The community is eminently Portuguese - that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy.

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A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.

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...we all know that in all matters of mere opinion that [every] man is insane-just as insane as we are...we know exactly where to put our finger upon his insanity: it is where his opinion differs from ours....All Democrats are insane, but not one of them knows it. None but the Republicans. All the Republicans are insane, but only the Democrats can perceive it. The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

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It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain.

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God's noblest work. Man who found it out? Man.

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...one should be gentle with the ignorant, for they are the chosen of God.

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Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

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The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong. He can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it in a nice and benevolent and affectionate way.

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A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.

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Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.

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My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame.

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If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.

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Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval - a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more dreaded than wolves and death.

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The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

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Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

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We never knew an ignorant person yet but was prejudiced.

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There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing

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The low level which commercial morality has reached in America is deplorable. We have humble God fearing Christian men among us who will stoop to do things for a million dollars that they ought not to be willing to do for less than 2 millions.

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