Mark Twain Quotes, Society Quotes, Skins Quotes

The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

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When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.

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I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world.

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I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it.

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Let us guess that whenever we read a sentence & like it, we unconsciously store it away in our model-chamber; & it goes, with the myriad of its fellows, to the building, brick by brick, of the eventual edifice which we call our style.

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One compliment can keep me going for a whole month.

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Satan hasn't a single salaried helper; the Opposition employs a million.

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The reason most people don't go to church is because they've already been.

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I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- unless he purposely shut the eyes of his mind & keep them shut by force.

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There is no other life; life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing exists but space and you. If there was an all-powerful God, he would have made all good, and no bad.

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...nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.

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This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he is going to have for breakfast.

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Civilizations proceed from the heart rather than from the head.

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The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.

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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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No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up the deficit.

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After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; ... I should be sorry to have that voice fall silent and pass out of my life.

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Wisdom teaches us that none but birds should go out early, and that not even birds should do it unless they are out of worms.

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The Bible is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some good morals; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies. This Bible is built mainly out of fragments of older Bibles that had their day and crumbled to ruin. So it noticeably lacks in originality, necessarily. Its three or four most imposing and impressive events all happened in earlier Bibles; there are only two new things in it: hell, for one, and that singular heaven I have told you about.

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Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

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