Mark Twain Quotes, Biblical Quotes, Discovery Quotes

The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetics in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve.

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That is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel.

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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

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You may call a jay a bird. Well, so he is, in a measure--because he's got feathers on him, and don't belong to no church, perhaps;but otherwise he is just as much a human as you be. And I'll tell you for why. A jay's gifts and instincts, and feelings, and interests, cover the whole ground. A jay hasn't got any more principle than a Congressman.

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No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up the deficit.

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I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two million dollars.

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God was left out of the Constitution but was furnished a front seat on the coins of the country.

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Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone-if still alive.

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Few of us stand prosperity; another man's I mean.

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We have an insanity plea that would have saved Cain.

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Golden rule: Made of hard metal so it could stand severe wear, it not being known at that time that butter would answer.

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it is not wise to keep the fire going under a slander unless you can get some large advantage out of keeping it alive. Few slanders can stand the wear of silence.

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You need not expect to get your book right the first time.

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Never tell a lie-except for practice.

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The calamity that comes is never the one we had prepared ourselves for.

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The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for one or two of our lads (per annum) to get drowned in the Mississippi or in Bear Creek, but I was pulled out in a 2/3 drowned condition 9 times before I learned to swim, and was considered to be a cat in disguise.

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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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Citizenship is what makes a republic - monarchies can get along without it.

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Do right and you will be conspicuous.

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Never waste a lie; you never know when you may need it.

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