Mark Twain Quotes, Vanity Quotes, Civilization Quotes

My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.

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Now, isn't imagination a precious thing? It peoples the earth with all manner of wonders.

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Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand

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We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

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The business aspects of the Fourth of July is not perfect as it stands. See what it costs us every year with loss of life, the crippling of thousands with its fireworks, and the burning down of property. It is not only sacred to patriotism and universal freedom, but to the surgeon, the undertaker, the insurance offices - and they are working it for all it is worth.

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We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.

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I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and they would be honest so much earlier.

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All generalizations are false, including this one.

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Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.'

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

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He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

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All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

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There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

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Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

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It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it is for any other foreigner to read the terrible German script.

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That reminds me to remark, in passing, that the very first official thing I did, in my administration-and it was on the first day of it, too-was to start a patent office; for I knew that a country without a patent office and good patent laws was just a crab, and couldn't travel any way but sideways or backways.

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Demagogue--a vessel containing beer and other liquids.

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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

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What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

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