Mark Twain Quotes, Ethics Quotes, Morality Quotes

The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it.

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All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

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Evolution is a blind giant who rolls a snowball down a hill. The ball is made of flakes-circumstances. They contribute to the mass without knowing it. They adhere without intention, and without foreseeing what is to result. When they see the result they marvel at the monster ball and wonder how the contriving of it came to be originally thought out and planned. Whereas there was no such planning, there was only a law: the ball once started, all the circumstances that happened to lie in its path would help to build it, in spite of themselves.

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Life becomes fully understandable only the moment we realise that we are all mad.

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You aim for the palace and get drowned in the sewer.

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There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

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Don't wait the time is never just right.

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The fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man; and when a man is a man, you can't knock it out of him.

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I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing.

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Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.

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The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but the fly comes close.

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for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

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There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.

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

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There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!

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My heart goes out to anyone who is making his first appearance before an audience of human beings.

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I wrote 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huck Finn' for adults exclusively, and it always distressed me when I find that boys and girls have been allowed access to them. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean.

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We write frankly and freely, but then we modify before we print.

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If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter.

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Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.

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