Mark Twain Quotes, Christian Quotes, Country Quotes

A Christian's first duty is to God. It then follows, as a matter of course, that it is his duty to carry his Christian code to the polls and vote them... If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease... it would bring about a moral revolution that would be incalculably beneficent. It would save the country.

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He had an uncommon fondness for cats. As an old man summering in New Hampshire, Twain even rented kittens from a nearby farm to keep him company until he returned home. "If man could be crossed with the cat," said Twain, "it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat." There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

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The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example

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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

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If there wasn't anything to find out, it would be dull. Even trying to find out and not finding out is just as interesting as trying to find out and finding out; and I don't know but more so.

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The Koran does not permit Mohammedans to drink. Their natural instincts do not permit them to be moral. They say the Sultan has eight hundred wives. This almost amounts to bigamy.

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When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

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My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame.

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Always obey your parents. When they are present. This is the best policy in the long run. Because if you don't, they will make you. Most parents think they know better than you do, and you can generally make more by humoring that superstition than you can by acting on your own better judgment.

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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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When you catch an adjective, kill it - perhaps the best possible advice for budding writers.

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Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is.

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If you invent two or three people and turn them loose in your manuscript, something is bound to happen to them -- you can't help it; and then it will take you the rest of the book to get them out of the natural consequences of that occurrence, and so first thing you know, there's your book all finished up and never cost you an idea.

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To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.

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We can't always have the beautiful aspect of things. Let us make the most of our sights that are beautiful and let the others go

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If the world ends, I'll just head on down to Kentucky because they're always 20 years behind.

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We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

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I was educated once - it took me years to get over it.

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He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.

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If I had been helping the Almighty when he created man, I would have had him begin at the other end, and start human beings with old age. How much better to start old and have all the bitterness and blindness of age in the beginning!

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