Mark Twain Quotes, Children Quotes, Thinking Quotes

I think the Cincinnati Enquirer must be edited by children.

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Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

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The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it.

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I pledged myself to smoke but one cigar a day. I kept the cigar waiting until bedtime, then I had a luxurious time with it. But desire persecuted me every day and all day long. I found myself hunting for larger cigars...within the month my cigar had grown to such proportions I could have used it as a crutch.

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Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

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Who are the oppressors? The few: the King, the capitalist, and a handful of other overseers and superintendents. Who are the oppressed? The many: the nations of the earth; the valuable personages; the workers; they that make the bread that the soft-handed and idle eat.

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True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god.

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An adventure is something that while it's happening you wish it wasn't.

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The more I know people, the more I love my dog.

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I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.

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When in doubt, tell the truth. That maxim I did invent, but never expected it to be applied to me. I did say, "When you are in doubt," but when I am in doubt myself I use more sagacity.

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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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If God had meant for us to be naked, we'd have been born that way.

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Every inventor is a crackpot until his idea succeeds.

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It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.

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Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

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If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the pompous "wisdom" of the considered moral judgments of the present, we will find nothing but error.

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He could charm an audience an hour on a stretch without ever getting rid of an idea.

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All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

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Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right.

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