Mark Twain Quotes, Knives Quotes, Civilization Quotes

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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Good wine needs no bush; a jug is the thing.

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I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in either a small way or a large way.

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In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust', but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par.

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Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

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Most of the things I worried about in life never happened.

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Frankness is a jewel; only the young can afford it.

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I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are too costly terms for the release.

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I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.

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Take your mind out every now and then and dance on it. It is getting all caked up.

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You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friends

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One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare

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He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

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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 have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet.

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In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore, in the Old Silurian Period the Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long, seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long. There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesome returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

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I have seen an entire family lifted out of poverty and into affluence by the simple boon of a broken leg. I have had people come to me on crutches, with tears in their eyes, to bless this beneficient institution. In all my experiences of life, I have seen nothing so seraphic as the look that comes into a freshly mutilated man's face when he feels in his vest pocket with his remaining hand and finds his accident ticket all right.

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I can speak French but I cannot understand it.

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A proud man is one who waits for a vacancy in the Trinity.

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I am able to say that while I am not ruggedly well, I am not ill enough to excite an undertaker.

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