Mark Twain Quotes, Country Quotes, Eye Quotes

Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety's or comfort's sake, to stand well in his neighbor's eye. These institutions will always remain, and always flourish, and always oppress you, affront you, and degrade you, because you will always be and remain slaves of minorities. There was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.

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Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories.

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'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

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My heart goes out to anyone who is making his first appearance before an audience of human beings.

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The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

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There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

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Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

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What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. . . . The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. . . . When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world.

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Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.

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It is better to be alone than unwelcome. - Eve

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Who would find out that I am a natural fool if I kept always cool and never let nature come to the surface? Nobody.

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There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.

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There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

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We are all alike, on the inside.

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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do 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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I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.

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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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I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I’m not feeling so well myself.

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There are two reasons why anybody buys anything. The real reason, and the reason they give you.

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