Mark Twain Quotes, Country Quotes, Eye Quotes

Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety's or comfort's sake, to stand well in his neighbor's eye. These institutions will always remain, and always flourish, and always oppress you, affront you, and degrade you, because you will always be and remain slaves of minorities. There was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.

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She is not refined. She is not unrefined. She keeps a parrot

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There was a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used to forget what year it was we left port in.

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Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth

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There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope.

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

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The average man is what his environment and his superstitions have made him; and their function is to make him an ass. He can't add up three or four new circumstances together and perceive what they mean; it is beyond him. He is not capable of observing for himself; he has to get everything at second-hand. If what are miscalled the lower animals were as silly as man is, they would all perish from the earth in a year.

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Ah, if he could only die temporarily!

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You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. Lee Iacocca Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

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One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.

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He had the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.

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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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Do something everyday that you don't want to do.

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They spell it da Vinci and pronounce it da Vinchy. Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.

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There will never be a "perfect" time to quit smoking. A time when you don't have any distractions or stress... If you had started today one year ago, this would not even be an issue for you today! Don't waste another year!

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There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.

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Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.

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What do you think of the human mind? I mean, in case you think there is a human mind.

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Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.

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A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and fixed forever.

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