Mark Twain Quotes, Party Quotes, Independent Quotes

The editor of a newspaper cannot be independent, but must work with one hand tied behind him by party and patrons, and be content to utter only half or two-thirds of his mind . writers of all kinds are manacled servants of the public. We write frankly and fearlessly, but then we "modify" before we print.

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Never run after you own hat - others will be delighted to do it; why spoil their fun?

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The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.

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It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.

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The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetics in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve.

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When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of your loss.

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I was born modest, but it didn't last.

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July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so

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When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.

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If smoking cigars is not permitted in heaven, I won''t go.

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I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia.

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But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down to a certain point there comes a revulsion, and he rallies. Hope springs up, and cheerfulness along with it, and then he is in good shape to do something for himself, if anything can be done.

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If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is.

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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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Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

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When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

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It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

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Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer

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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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To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble.

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