Mark Twain Quotes, War Quotes, Animal Quotes

Man is the only animal that deals in that atorcity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind.

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The water is clearer than the air, and the air is the air that angels breathe.

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Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

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Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

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Wheresoever she was, there was Eden.

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In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.

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I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison.

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The Bible is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some good morals; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies. This Bible is built mainly out of fragments of older Bibles that had their day and crumbled to ruin. So it noticeably lacks in originality, necessarily. Its three or four most imposing and impressive events all happened in earlier Bibles; there are only two new things in it: hell, for one, and that singular heaven I have told you about.

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Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

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

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Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded.

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The world has corrected the Bible. The church never corrects it; and also never fails to drop in at the tail of the procession-and take the credit of the correction.

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In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

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The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word.

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But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

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There is not a single celebrated Southern name in any of the departments of human industry except those of war, assassination, lynching, murder, the duel, repudiation, & massacre.

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The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

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All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.

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Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good.

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I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary.

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