Mark Twain Quotes, Country Quotes, Patriotism Quotes

Patriotism is merely a religion-love of country, worship of country, devotion to the country's flag and honor and welfare.

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When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.

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All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.

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Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right.

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The heart is the real fountain of youth.

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I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

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For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment

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If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

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An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth.

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Kindness is a language herd by deaf men and felt by blind men.

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If ignorance is bliss, why isn't the world happier?

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An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.

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What a lie it is to call this a free country, where none but the unworthy and undeserving may swear.

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In America-as elsewhere-free speech is confined to the dead.

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I have only one moral precept; never smoke more than five cigars at a time.

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

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A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them.

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As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.

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There is no humor in heaven.

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All good things arrive unto them that wait - and don't die in the meantime.

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