Mark Twain Quotes, Peace Quotes, Truth Quotes

The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.

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It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.

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The fear of lightning is one of the most distressing infirmities a human being can be afflicted with. It is mostly confined to women, but now and then you find it in a little dog, and sometimes a man.

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An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

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Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.

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One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself

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Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can't sleep anyhow.

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And so when I couldn't stand it no longer, I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied.

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Man is the only religious animal. In the Holy task of smoothing his brother's path to the happiness of heaven, he has turned the globe into a graveyard.

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I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean it.

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Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.

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Start it at no particular time of your life; wander at your free will all over your life; talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment; drop it the moment its interest threatens to pale.

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The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.

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I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way: by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else... I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road.

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Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it.

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Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name Bzjxxllwcp is pronounced Jackson.

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Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity. He could have made a reputation. But no, He must commit this grotesque folly - a lark which must have cost Him a regret or two when He came to think it over and observe effects.

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I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in either a small way or a large way.

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

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