Mark Twain Quotes, Hurt Quotes, Brother Quotes

Well - Patriotism has its laws. And it also is a perfectly definite one, there are not vaguenesses about it. It commands that the brother over the border shall be sharply watched and brought to book every time he does us a hurt or offends us with an insult.

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Honor is a harder master than the law.

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Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.

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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.

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Unused talents gives you no advantage over someone who has no talent at all.

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A healthy and wholesome cheerfulness is not necessarily impossible to any occupation.

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It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

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Every person is a book, each year a chapter.

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I was warned to stop smoking, which I did, for two or three days, but it was too lonesome, and I have resumed - in a modified way - 4 smokes a day instead of 40. This will have a good effect. On the bank balance.

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The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.

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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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Behind every successful man, there is a woman - And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two.

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Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be obeyed by all - and will be

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Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he was alive. I wish they were used more.

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I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.

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whenever the literary german dives into a sentence, this is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

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I never felt so fervently thankful, so soothed, so tranquil, so filled with the blessed peace, as I did yesterday when I learned that Michael Angelo was dead.

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Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

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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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There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of degraded barbarians, the other of enlightened civilized people.

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