Mark Twain Quotes, Change Quotes, Prejudice Quotes

We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blesses facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.

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An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth.

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My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.

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If you must be indiscrete, be discrete in your indiscretion.

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I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison.

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Whatever a man's age, he can reduce it several years by putting a bright-colored flower in his button-hole.

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The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

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It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right

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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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The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

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Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.

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Tea is an affront to lunch and an insult to dinner.

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Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a rest?

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You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do

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By "trampling upon the helpless abroad" with unchecked surveillance, Americans have learned, "by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like at home."

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Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.

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Time spent with your children is time wisely spent.

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We laugh and laugh. Then cry and cry- Then feebler laugh, Then die.

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The average American may not know who his grandfather was. But the American was, however, one degree better off than the average Frenchman who, as a rule, was in considerable doubt as to who his father was.

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There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

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