Mark Twain Quotes, Ignorance Quotes, Self Quotes

Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty.

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It is a mystery that is hidden from me by reason that the emergency requiring the fathoming of it hath not in my life-days occurred, and so, not having no need to know this thing, I abide barren of the knowledge.

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I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.

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The future interests me - I'm going to spend the rest of my life there.

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It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.

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Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death!

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Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW is only a small step and quickly taken.

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Never mistake motion for progress.

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Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

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What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety.

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This is the only sane clerical the earthquake has exposed to view yet.

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It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.

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But in this country we have one great privilege which they don't have in other countries. When a thing gets to be absolutely unbearable the people can rise up and throw it off. That's the finest asset we've got - the ballot box.

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Cherimoya, the most delicious fruit known to men.

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What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.

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There was a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used to forget what year it was we left port in.

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As to the human race. There are many pretty and winning things about the human race. It is perhaps the poorest of all the inventions of all the gods but it has never suspected it once. There is nothing prettier than its naive and complacent appreciation of itself. It comes out frankly and proclaims without bashfulness or any sign of a blush that it is the noblest work of God. It has had a billion opportunities to know better, but all signs fail with this ass. I could say harsh things about it but I cannot bring myself to do it-it is like hitting a child.

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If ignorance is bliss, why isn't the world happier?

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great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.

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Why should anybody want to save the human race, or damn it either? Does God want its society? Does Satan?

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