Mark Twain Quotes, Media Quotes, Talking Quotes

I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists, and the opinion of the majority of them would not be worth tuppence in private, but when they speak in print it is the newspaper that is talking (the pygmy scribe is not visible) and then their utterances shake the community like the thunders of prophecy.

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I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great.

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Always do what's right. That will gratify some and surprise the rest.

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When some men discharge an obligation, you can hear the report for miles around.

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I wish Europe would let Russia annihilate Turkey a little--not much, but enough to make it difficult to find the place again without a divining-rod or a diving-bell.

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One compliment can keep me going for a whole month.

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I don't speak German well but several experts have assured me that I write it like an angel. Maybe so, maybe so- I don't know. I've not yet made any acquaintances among the angels. That comes later, whenever it please the Deity. I'm not in any hurry.

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Strange is the man who practices his religion.

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Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

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She is not refined. She is not unrefined. She keeps a parrot

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He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.

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Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.

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There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.

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The more I know people, the more I love my dog.

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The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury.

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A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditch digging.

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Denial is much more then an Egyptian River.

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Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession. You have seen all of it that is worth staying for when the band and the gaudy officials have gone by.

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The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name.

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No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.

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