Mark Twain Quotes, Animal Quotes, Feelings Quotes

It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it.

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Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions....there was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.

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Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more.

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The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

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In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man

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From the dome of St. Peter's one can see every notable object in Rome... He can see a panorama that is varied, extensive, beautiful to the eye, and more illustrious in history than any other in Europe.

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Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?

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Unexpected money is a delight. The same sum is a bitterness when you expected more.

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Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training. We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own; they are transmitted to us, trained into us.

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That is a simple rule, and easy to remember. When I, a thoughtful and unblessed Presbyterian, examine the Koran, I know that beyond any question every Mohammedan is insane; not in all things, but in religious matters.

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It is your human environment that makes climate

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Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is not at one time or another an unconscious one.

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There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.

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I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I’m not feeling so well myself.

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

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When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn't know.

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He liked to like people, therefore people liked him.

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To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, "Our Country, right or wrong," and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that that phrase is an insult to the nation?

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Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.

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