Mark Twain Quotes, Justice Quotes, Pleasure Quotes

To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

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A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people mad enough to do something about it.

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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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Never do wrong when people are looking.

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Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, & those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied with drink.

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There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

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He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.

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One of life's most over-valued pleasures is sexual intercourse; of one of life's least appreciated pleasures in defecation.

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Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life.

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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

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Tea is an affront to lunch and an insult to dinner.

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When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.

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The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.

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High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

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Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

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The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race.

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Talking of patriotism, what humbug it is; it is a word which always commemorates a robbery.

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There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing and predatory as it is - in our country particularly, and in all other Christian countries in a somewhat modified degree - it is still a hundred times better than the Christianity of the Bible, with its prodigious crime- the invention of Hell.

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God was left out of the Constitution but was furnished a front seat on the coins of the country.

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Grown people everywhere are always likely to cling to the religion they were brought up in.

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