Mark Twain Quotes, Liberty Quotes, Ark Quotes

We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.

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It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as whiskey, or any other of the necessaries of life. It grieves me to think how far more profound and reverent a respect the law would have for literature if a body could only get drunk on it.

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It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.

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I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

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The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.

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A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die.

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Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is not at one time or another an unconscious one.

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More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.

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Suddenly the nickel-clad horse takes the bit in its mouth and goes slanting for the curbstone defying all prayers and all your powers to change its mind - your heart stands still, your breath hangs fire, your legs forget to work.

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Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

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My father and I were always on the most distant terms when I was a boy--a sort of armed neutrality, so to speak. At irregular intervals this neutrality was broken, and suffering ensued; but I will be candid enough to say that the breaking and the suffering were always divided up with strict impartiality between us--which is to say, my father did the breaking, and I did the suffering.

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A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.

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Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.

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The longing of my heart is a fairy portrait of myself: I want to be pretty; I want to eliminate facts and fill up the gap with charms.

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When everyone is looking for gold, it's a good time to be in the pick and shovel business.

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Not a single right is indestructible: a new might can at any time abolish it, hence, man possesses not a single permanent right. God is Might (and He is shifty, malicious, and uncertain).

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There isn't a Parallel of Latitude but thinks it would have been the Equator if it had had its rights.

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Some people give their problems swimming lessons instead of drowning them.

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The person who has no opinion will seldom be wrong.

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But it was ever thus, all through my life: whenever I have diverged from custom and principle and uttered a truth, the rule has been that the hearer hadn't strength of mind enough to believe it.

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