Mark Twain Quotes, Soul Quotes, Patriotism Quotes

The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.

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You can never find a Christian who has acquired this valuable knowledge, this saving knowledge, by any process but the everlasting and all-sufficient 'people say.'

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A man's house burns down. The smoking wreckage represents only a ruined home that was dear through years of use and pleasant associations. By and by, as the days and weeks go on, first he misses this, then that, then the other thing. And when he casts about for it he finds that it was in that house. Always it is an essential - here was but one of its kind. It cannot be replaced. It was in that house. It is irrevocably lost...It will be years before the tale of lost essentials is complete, and not till then can he truly know the magnitude of his disaster.

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If you will notice, there is seldom a telegram in a paper which fails to show up one or more members & beneficiaries of our Civilization as promenading with his shirt-tail up & the rest of his regalia in the wash.

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Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.

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It is higher and nobler to be kind.

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I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

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No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done.

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I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.

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The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story to tell every day.

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The English are mentioned in the Bible; Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

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I have tried getting up early, and I have tried getting up late-and the latter agrees with me best.

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You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.

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Guides cannot master the subtleties of the American joke.

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A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out.

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When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

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Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.

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[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug.

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Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.

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In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him.

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