Mark Twain Quotes, Funny Quotes, Compassion Quotes

All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.

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If horses knew their strength we should not ride anymore.

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The Church worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies of witches, and washed the Christian world clean with their foul blood. Then it was discovered that there was no such thing as witches, and never had been. One doesn't know whether to laugh or to cry. Who discovered that there was no such thing as a witch - the priest, the parson? No, these never discover anything.

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If I had more time, I would have written less.

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There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.

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'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

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If I can capture truth in its simplest form, beauty will follow like a sledgehammer.

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I've seen many troubles in my time, only half of which ever came true.

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Truth is such a precious article - let us all economize in its use.

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Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.

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The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad of these conscience-soothing falsities

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Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight -- this is magnanimity; but bet on the other one -- this is business.

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Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

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I was in one of the most grand attitudes I ever struck, with my arm stretched up pointing to the sun. It was a noble effect. You could see the shudder sweep the mass like a wave.

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Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.

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I felt it was my duty to praise all of God's works with fervent enthusiasm. At the same time I killed flies in my house in a spirit of hatred, exasperation and contempt. My praise to God for all his works was dishonest, the act of killing the fly was honest.

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I am able to say that while I am not ruggedly well, I am not ill enough to excite an undertaker.

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Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man.

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There isn't anything so grotesque or so incredible that the average human being can't believe it.

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I'm merely running some errands. This is now off the record.

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