Mark Twain Quotes, Camelot Quotes

Bridgeport?" Said I. "Camelot," Said he.

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To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.

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It is sound statesmanship to add two battleships every time our neighbour adds one and two stories to our skyscrapers every time he piles a new one on top of his to threaten our light. There is no limit to this soundness but the sky.

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Good judgment comes from experience. And where does experience come from? Experience comes from bad judgment.

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I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean it.

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Why should anybody want to save the human race, or damn it either? Does God want its society? Does Satan?

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By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.

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I simply can´t resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside of the girl you love, of course.

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We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.

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There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing, and predatory. The invention of hell measured by our Christianity of today, bad as it is, hypocritical as it is, empty and hollow as it is, neither the deity nor his son is a Christian, nor qualified for that moderately high place. Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilled.

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The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

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The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners.

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All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.

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Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.

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One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare

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And so when I couldn't stand it no longer, I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied.

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A woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologize.

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No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.

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The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.

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Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

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