Mark Twain Quotes, Party Quotes, Independent Quotes

The editor of a newspaper cannot be independent, but must work with one hand tied behind him by party and patrons, and be content to utter only half or two-thirds of his mind . writers of all kinds are manacled servants of the public. We write frankly and fearlessly, but then we "modify" before we print.

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When your opinions start to coincide with those of the majority, it is time to reconsider your opinions.

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The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.

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Reputation is a hall-mark: it can remove doubt from pure silver, and it can also make the plated article pass for pure.

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The new political gospel: public office is private graft.

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We write frankly and freely, but then we modify before we print.

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The frankest and freest and privatest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter.

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when you recollect something which belonged in an earlier chapter, do not go back, but jam it in where you are . Discursiveness does not hurt an autobiography in the least.

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All kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out.

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There warn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn't any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because it's cool. If you notice, most folks don't go to church only when they've got to; but a hog is different.

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We are all beggars, each in his own way.

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A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

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Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it.

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I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.

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I speak French with timidity, and not flowingly--except when excited. When using that language I have often noticed that I have hardly ever been mistaken for a Frenchman, except, perhaps, by horses; never, I believe, by people.

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The truth hurts, but silence kills.

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December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.

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How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good.

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How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.

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Nothing so focuses the mind as the prospect of being hanged.

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