Mark Twain Quotes, Logic Quotes, Tradition Quotes

The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it

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What a world of trouble those who never marry escape! There are many happy matches, it is true, and sometimes "my dear," and "my love" come from the heart; but what sensible bachelor, rejoicing in his freedom and years of discretion, will run the tremendous risk?

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A half-educated physician is not valuable. He thinks he can cure everything.

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The radical of one century is the conservative of the next.

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To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble.

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Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

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To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, "Our Country, right or wrong," and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that that phrase is an insult to the nation?

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A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands.

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An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music.

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Of the 417 commandments, only a single one of the 417 has found ministerial obedience; multiply and replenish the earth. To it sinner & saint, scholar & ignoramus, Christian & savage are alike loyal.

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A woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologize.

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Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

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We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

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Is it, perhaps, possible that there are two kinds of Civilization-one for home consumption and one for the heathen market?

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The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.

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You can't reason someone out of something that they weren't reasoned into in the first place.

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He was endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around the globe four times and tie.

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Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

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The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass. If the case be otherwise, I beg his pardon and extend to him the cordial hand of fellowship and call him brother.

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Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear Heart, Good night, good night.

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