Mark Twain Quotes, Truth Quotes, Lying Quotes

The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.

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On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.

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In all the ages the Roman Church has owned slaves, bought and sold slaves, authorized and encouraged her children to trade in them. . . . There were the texts; there was no mistaking their meaning; . . . she was doing in all this thing what the Bible had mapped out for her to do. So unassailable was her position that in all the centuries she had no word to say against human slavery.

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None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try.

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To one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, seems the loveliest.

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To us, our house was not unsentient matter -- it had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals and solicitudes and deep sympathies; it was of us, and we were in its confidence, and lived in its grace and in the peace of its benediction.

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His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.

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...the circumstances and the atmosphere always have so much to do in directing a conversation, especially a German conversation, which is only a kind of an insurrection, anyway.

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The world has corrected the Bible. The church never corrects it; and also never fails to drop in at the tail of the procession-and take the credit of the correction.

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It is an important thing, in our never-ending pursuit of happiness, to stop and just be happy for a while.

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His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.

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None but an ass pays a compliment and asks a favour at the same time. There are many asses.

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We Americans worship the almighty dollar! Well, it is a worthier god than Heredity Privilege.

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A sound heart is a surer guide than an ill-trained conscience.

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To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.

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The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is--a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers. But a mob without any MAN at the head of it is BENEATH pitifulness.

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You can't make a life over. Society wouldn't let you if you would.

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I do not see how astronomers can help feeling exquisitely insignificant, for every new page of the Book of the Heavens they open reveals to them more and more that the world we are so proud of is to the universe of careening globes as is one mosquito to the winged and hoofed flocks and herds that darken the air and populate the plains and forests of all the earth. If you killed the mosquito would it be missed? Verily, What is Man, that he should be considered of God?

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There ain't no way to find out why a snorer can't hear himself snore.

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The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse to obey those laws, and we must as steadfastly stand by the conventions which ignore them, since the statutes furnish us peace, fairly good government, and stability, and therefore are better for us than the laws of God, which would soon plunge us into confusion and disorder and anarchy if we should adopt them.

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