Mark Twain Quotes, Mistake Quotes, Thinking Quotes

We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which we consider a boon. Its name is public opinion. It is held in reverence. Some think it the voice of God.

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To someone with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

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A jackass has that kind of strength, and puts it to a useful purpose, and is valuable to the world because he is a jackass; but anobleman is not valuable because he is a jackass. It is a mixture that is always ineffectual, and should never have been attempted in the first place. And yet, once you start a mistake, the trouble is done and you never know what is going to come of it.

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Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.

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You ought never to sass old people- unless they sass you first.

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God puts something good and loveable in every man His hands create.

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Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded.

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Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.

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I always take Scotch whiskey at night as a preventive of toothache. I have never had the toothache; and what is more, I never intend to have it.

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It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!

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It would not be possible for Noah to do in our day what he was permitted to do in his own ... The inspector would come and examine the Ark, and make all sorts of objections.

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One must travel, to learn.

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The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

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The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.

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...we all know that in all matters of mere opinion that [every] man is insane-just as insane as we are...we know exactly where to put our finger upon his insanity: it is where his opinion differs from ours....All Democrats are insane, but not one of them knows it. None but the Republicans. All the Republicans are insane, but only the Democrats can perceive it. The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

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The truth hurts, but silence kills.

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In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money.

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There's always a hole in theories somewhere if you look close enough.

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

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To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

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