Mark Twain Quotes, Pain Quotes, Giving Quotes

Our consciences take no notice of pain inflicted on others until it reaches a point where it gives pain to us.

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Well, my book is written-let it go. But if it were only to write over again there wouldn't be so many things left out. They burn in me; and they keep multiplying; but now they can't ever be said. And besides, they would require a library-and a pen warmed up in hell.

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It is yet another Civilized Power, with its banner of the Prince of Peace in one hand and its loot-basket and its butcher-knife in the other. Is there no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level?.

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When some men discharge an obligation, you can hear the report for miles around.

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I never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical organization. It is likely that such a very liberal amount of space was given to the organ which enables me to make promises that the organ which should enable me to keep them was crowded out. But I grieve not. I like no half-way things. I had rather have one faculty nobly developed than two faculties of mere ordinary capacity.

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Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period.

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In Austria an editor who can write well is valuable, but he is not likely to remain so unless he can handle a sabre with charm.

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Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.

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None but the dead have free speech.

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We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking.

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We have an insanity plea that would have saved Cain.

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The lack of money is the root of all evil.

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Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on.

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I never made a success of a lecture delivered in a church yet. People are afraid to laugh in a church. They can't be made to do it in any possible way.

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When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

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When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.

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Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.

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Who are we to create a heaven and hell for ourselves, excluding animals and plants in the bargain, just because we have the power to rationalize?

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Faith is believing things you know aint true

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I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time is come I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.

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