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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Man - a figment of God's imagination.

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Life ain't about how fast you run or how high you climb, It's all about how good you bounce. A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

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If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is.

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Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene

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We write frankly and freely, but then we modify before we print.

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He [George Washington Cable] has taught me to abhor and detest the Sabbath day and hunt up new and troublesome ways to dishonor it.

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Constellations have always been troublesome things to name. If you give one of them a fanciful name, it will always refuse to live up to it; it will always persist in not resembling the thing it has been named for.

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Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.

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The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it.

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What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.

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...heaven for climate, and hell for society.

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To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it.

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I do love compliments, yet I'm often embarrassed to say what I think to the person when I get a compliment. I so often feel that they have not gone far enough.

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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

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If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.

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Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on The Survival of the Fittest. These are illustrious names, this is a mighty doctrine: nothing can ever remove it from its firm base, nothing dissolve it, but evolution.

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Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

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I saw a startling sight today, a politician with his hands in his own pockets.

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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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