Mark Twain Quotes, Men Quotes, Moral Quotes

Why is it that, among men, physical courage is a trait so plenteous yet moral courage is a trait so rare?

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It's so damned humiliating.

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There are some natures which never grow large enough to speak out and say a bad act is a bad act, until they have inquired into the politics or the nationality of the man who did it.

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Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought -- by force of circumstances, not argument -- to reconcile itself to any kind of government or religion that can be devised; in time it will fit itself to the required conditions; later it will prefer them and will fiercely fight for them.

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The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future.

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Let us swear while we may, for in heaven it will not be allowed

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How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.

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Do one thing every day you don't want to do.

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I'm the only person who has ever found the right way to build an autobiography.

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I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says - "Yes; the little ones does".

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The true and lasting genius of humour does not drag you thus to boxes labelled 'pathos,' 'humour,' and show you all the mechanism of the inimitable puppets that are going to perform. How I used to laugh at Simon Tapperwit, and the Wellers, and a host more! But I can't do it now somehow; and time, it seems to me, is the true test of humour. It must be antiseptic.

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Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

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Astonishing things can be done with the human memory if you will devote it faithfully to one particular line of business.

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I simply can't resist a cat, particularly a purring one.

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Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?

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Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight -- this is magnanimity; but bet on the other one -- this is business.

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In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.

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The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.

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There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it.

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There are no accidents, all things have a deep and calculated purpose; sometimes the methods employed by Providence seem strange and incongruous, but we have only to be patient and wait for the result: then we recognize that no others would have answered the purpose, and we are rebuked and humbled.

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