Mark Twain Quotes, Book Quotes, Moral Quotes

We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically at least.

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The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all--the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

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You can't pray a lie -- I found that out.

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Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty.

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A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive, a jay will betray; and four times out of five, a jay will go back on his solemnest promise.

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Seventy is old enough. After that there is too much risk.

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A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands.

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You can tell German wine from vinegar by the label.

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Like most people, I often feel mean, and act accordingly.

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It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it.

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I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

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A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people mad enough to do something about it.

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To us, our house was not unsentient matter -- it had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals and solicitudes and deep sympathies; it was of us, and we were in its confidence, and lived in its grace and in the peace of its benediction.

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There are two reasons why anybody buys anything. The real reason, and the reason they give you.

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There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

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Suppose . . . burglars had made entry into this . . . [library]. Picture them seated here on this floor, pouring the light of their dark-lanterns over some books they found, and thus absorbing moral truths and getting moral uplift. The whole course of their lives would have been changed. As it was, they kept straight on in their immoral way and were sent to jail. For all I know, they may next be sent to Congress.

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It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

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Figures don't lie, but liars figure.

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The devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despots dread of a newspaper that laughs.

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The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

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