Mark Twain Quotes, Ignorance Quotes, Men Quotes

Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.

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the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider’s measurement of it but only by the measurements applied to it by the person specially affected by it.

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The truth is a precious commodity. That's why I use it so sparingly.

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We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes

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Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.

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It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right

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There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing, and predatory. The invention of hell measured by our Christianity of today, bad as it is, hypocritical as it is, empty and hollow as it is, neither the deity nor his son is a Christian, nor qualified for that moderately high place. Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilled.

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Stars and shadows ain't good to see by.

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Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

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Now I can only pray that there may be a God -- and a heaven -- or something better.

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Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.

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In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

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The xmas holidays have this high value: that they remind Forgetters of the Forgotten, & repair damaged relationships.

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It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so.""

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Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

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A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.

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There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

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If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.

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We despise no source that can pay us a pleasing attention.

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Surely the ass who invented the first religion ought to be the first ass damned

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