Mark Twain Quotes, Country Quotes, Patriotic Quotes

Man is the only Patriot. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other nations, and keeps multitudinous uniformed assassins on hand at heavy expense to grab slices of other people's countries, and keep them from grabbing slices of his. And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for the universal brotherhood of man - with his mouth.

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It is my custom to keep on talking until I get the audience cowed.

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That is the way of the scientist. He will spend thirty years in building up a mountain range of facts with the intent to prove a certain theory; then he is so happy with his achievement that as a rule he overlooks the main chief fact of all-that all his accumulation proves an entirely different thing.

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Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.

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Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others-his last breath.

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Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories.

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Unused talents gives you no advantage over someone who has no talent at all.

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My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.

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I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English - it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in.

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Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin?

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Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

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I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.

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Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.

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One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it.

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It is not what a man knows, but what he thinks of in time.

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I never felt so fervently thankful, so soothed, so tranquil, so filled with the blessed peace, as I did yesterday when I learned that Michael Angelo was dead.

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We like to read about rich people in the newspapers; the papers know it, and they do their best to keep this appetite liberally fed.

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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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People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either being made.

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Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.'

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