Mark Twain Quotes, Loyalty Quotes, Country Quotes

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

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To avoid being drawn into error, keep a firm grip on the truth.

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The miracle or the power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance under the promptings of a brave, determined spirit.

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Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.

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To me [Edgar Allen Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death.

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Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilt.

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Don't wait the time is never just right.

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The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

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We like to read about rich people in the newspapers; the papers know it, and they do their best to keep this appetite liberally fed.

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The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

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Tough times teach trust.

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The newspaper that obstructs the law on a trivial pretext, for money's sake, is a dangerous enemy to the public weal. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.

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The sole impulse which dictates and compels a man's every act: the imperious necessity of securing his own approval, in every emergency and at all costs.... It is our only spur, our whip, our goad, our impelling power; we have no other.

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If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.

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When your watch gets out of order you have choice of two things to do: throw it in the fire or take it to the watch-tinker. The former is the quickest.

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To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.

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The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anybody's whim - anybody's diseased caprice.

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You can't pray a lie -- I found that out.

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The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

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Names are not always what they seem.

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