Mark Twain Quotes, Christian Quotes, Atheism Quotes

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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The easy part of being an artist is figuring out the message that everyone else is ready to hear. The hard part is waiting for the proper lull to make the announcement.

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The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny

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A better idea than my own is to listen.

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The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners.

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A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. There is nothing more satisfying than that sense of being completely "at home" in your own skin. When you achieve that as a natural state of "being", then you can finally look beyond yourself and fully contribute all your talents to the world.

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No real estate is permanently valuable but the grave.

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Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human promises? That is a peculiar condition of society which enables a whole nation to instantly recognize point and meaning in the familiar newspaper anecdote, which puts into the mouth of a distinguished speculator in lands and mines this remark: -- I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two millions of dollars.

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I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.

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Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

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If you have to swallow a frog, don't stare at it too long.

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The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.

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Human beings are the only creatures who blush - or who need to.

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I am not an American. I am the American.

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April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.

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A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.

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The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness--your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture....He takes upon himself to be the week-day preacher.

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In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

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I have been an author for 20 years and an ass for 55.

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What a man wants with religion in these breadless times, surpasses my comprehension.

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