Mark Twain Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Quotes

You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?

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For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness.

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Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to keep them from setting me afire inside; then all that ink and labor are wasted because I can't print the results

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My father was an amazing man. The older I got, the smarter he got.

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Where are there are two desires in a man's heart he has no choice between the two but must obey the strongest, there being no such thing as free will in the composition of any human being that ever lived.

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Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows

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My land, the power of training! Of influence! Of education! It can bring a body up to believe anything.

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It was not that Adam ate the apple for the apple's sake, but because it was forbidden. It would have been better for us-oh infinitely better for us-if the serpent had been forbidden

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None but the dead are permitted to tell the truth.

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A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditch digging.

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Dying man couldn't make up his mind which place to go to-both have their advantages, heaven for the climate, hell for the company!

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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

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Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute.

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The citizen who thinks he sees that the commonwealth's political clothes are worn out, and yet holds his peace and does not agitate for a new suit, is disloyal, he is a traitor. That he may be the only one who thinks he sees this decay, does not excuse him: it is his duty to agitate anyway, and it is the duty of others to vote him down if they do not see the matter as he does.

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We despise no source that can pay us a pleasing attention.

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Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love compliments. I love them even when they are not so. My child, I can live on a good compliment two weeks with nothing else to eat.

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Unexpected money is a delight. The same sum is a bitterness when you expected more.

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I would not rob you of your food or your clothes or your umbrella, but if I caught your German out I would take it. But I don't study any more,- I have given it up.

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Life becomes fully understandable only the moment we realise that we are all mad.

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I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language.

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