Mark Twain Quotes, Modesty Quotes, Reason Quotes

The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anybody's whim - anybody's diseased caprice.

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The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils, but give me the banjo.

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

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There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing

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We have infinite trouble in solving man-made mysteries; it is only when we set out to discover "the secret of God" that our difficulties disappear.

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I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else.

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It's not as bad as it sounds.

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Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

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I pity the fellow who has to create a dialect or paraphrase the dictionary to get laughs. I can't spell, but I have never stooped to spell cat with a 'k' to get at your funny bone. I love a drink, but I never encouraged drunkenness by harping on its alleged funny side.

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Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

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Architects cannot teach nature anything.

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I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

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And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in the private interest of royal families," Satan said, "sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose - there is no such war in the history of the race."

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Be good and you will be lonely.

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Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn

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A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

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What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.

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When one has tasted watermelons, one knows what angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took; we know it because she repented.

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Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.

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The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise.

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