Mark Twain Quotes, Giving Up Quotes, Taken Quotes

It has taken a weary long time to persuade American Presbyterians to give up infant damnation and try to bear it the best they can.

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When you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warn't really anything the matter with them. That is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself. In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better.

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Leaving out the gamblers, the burglars, and the plumbers, perhaps we do put our trust in God after a fashion. But, after all, it is an overstatement. If the cholera or black plague should come to these shores, perhaps the bulk of the nation would pray to be delivered from it, but the rest would put their trust in The Health Board.

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You have noticed that the human being is a curiosity. In times past he has had (and worn out and flung away) hundreds and hundreds of religions; today he has hundreds and hundreds of religions, and launches not fewer than three new ones every year. I could enlarge on that number and still be within the facts.

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If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.

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

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Why should anybody want to save the human race, or damn it either? Does God want its society? Does Satan?

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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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Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.

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Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.

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The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

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Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

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Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.

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It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.

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On with the dance, let the joy be unconfined.

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A wanton waste of projectiles.

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Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

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As a rule, we go about with masks, we go about looking honest, and we are able to conceal ourselves all through the day.

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The new political gospel: public office is private graft.

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If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. His contributions to the world's list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also away out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers.

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