Mark Twain Quotes, War Quotes, Southern Quotes

In the South the war is what A.D. is elsewhere; they date from it.

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We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.

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Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.

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Presbyterianism without infant damnation would be like the dog on the train that couldn't be identified because it had lost its tag.

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Eventually, I sickened of people, myself included, who didn't think enough of themselves to make something of themselves- people who did only what they had to and never what they could have done. I learned from them the infected loneliness that comes at the end of every misspent day. I knew I could do better.

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It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

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He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.

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It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

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The [Kodak is] the only witness I have encountered in my long experience that I couldn't bribe.

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Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself.

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You must not pay a person a compliment, and then straightway follow it with a criticism.

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Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.

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Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

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His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

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When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

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Love heightens all senses - except the common.

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Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?

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The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

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George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

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Surely the test of a novel's characters is that you feel a strong interest in them and their affairs the good to be successful, the bad to suffer failure. Well, in John Ward, you feel no divided interest, no discriminating interest you want them all to land in hell together, and right away.

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