Mark Twain Quotes, Truth Quotes, Believe Quotes

But it was ever thus, all through my life: whenever I have diverged from custom and principle and uttered a truth, the rule has been that the hearer hadn't strength of mind enough to believe it.

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You need not expect to get your book right the first time.

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She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

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I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.

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The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

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The Book of Mormon is chloroform in print

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The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

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He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.

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When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.

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A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.

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I'm all for prosperity. It's change I object to.

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

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A marriage. . .will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a new mystery to life.

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Alas! those good old days are gone, when a murderer could wipe the stain from his name and soothe his trouble to sleep simply by getting out his blocks and mortar and building an addition to a church.

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They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose it is so.

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We teach them to take their patriotism at second-hand; to shout with the largest crowd without examining into the right or wrong of the matter -- exactly as boys under monarchies are taught and have always been taught. We teach them to regard as traitors, and hold in aversion and contempt, such as do not shout with the crowd, and so here in our democracy we are cheering a thing which of all things is most foreign to it and out of place -- the delivery of our political conscience into somebody else's keeping. This is patriotism on the Russian plan.

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All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

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Like most people, I often feel mean, and act accordingly.

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Congress: America's only true criminal class.

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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

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