Mark Twain Quotes, Truth Quotes, Doubt Quotes

When in doubt, tell the truth. That maxim I did invent, but never expected it to be applied to me. I did say, "When you are in doubt," but when I am in doubt myself I use more sagacity.

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The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds of America. They observed that we talked loudly at table sometimes. They noticed that we looked out for expenses and got what we conveniently could out of a franc, and wondered where in the mischief we came from. In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

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Many people have the reasoning facility, but no one uses it in religious matters.

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Honor is a harder master than the law.

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It is not in the least likely that any life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret judgment of the person who lived it.

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When all is said and done, the one sole condition that makes spiritual happiness and preserves it is the absence of doubt.

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Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his cigar.

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Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

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We are all alike, on the inside.

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It is agreed, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it is not incumbent on him to care whether the arrangement is satisfactory to anyone else or not.

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The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable.

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Ethical man: A Christian holding four aces.

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The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.

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It is curious and interesting to notice what an attraction a fussy, mincing, nickel-plated word has for you.

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The symbol of the race ought to be a human being carrying an ax, for every human being has one concealed about him somewhere, and is always seeking the opportunity to grind it.

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I am not an economist. I am an honest man!

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The difference between those that succeed and those that fail is, those that succeeded tried.

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And so when I couldn't stand it no longer, I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied.

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Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a mystery.

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It was the most earnest ambition I ever had....Not that I ever really wanted to be a preacher, but because it never occurred to me that a preacher could be damned. It looked like a safe job.

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