Mark Twain Quotes, Christian Quotes, Country Quotes

There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing and predatory as it is - in our country particularly, and in all other Christian countries in a somewhat modified degree - it is still a hundred times better than the Christianity of the Bible, with its prodigious crime- the invention of Hell.

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What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.

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I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

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Senator: Person who makes laws in Washington when not doing time.

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a fully belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

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Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.

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But we are all insane, anyway. Note the mountain-climbers.

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We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off.

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By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.

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When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.

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I think the Cincinnati Enquirer must be edited by children.

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Humor is the good natured side of a truth.

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My axiom is, to succeed in business: avoid my example.

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Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together!

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Grown people everywhere are always likely to cling to the religion they were brought up in.

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Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

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The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it-when unpopular.

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Stars and shadows ain't good to see by.

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I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are too costly terms for the release.

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It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient.

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