Mark Twain Quotes, 4th Of July Quotes, Eight Quotes

Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone-if still alive.

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To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, "Our Country, right or wrong," and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that that phrase is an insult to the nation?

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In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.

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Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

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A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditchdigging. It is the insanest of all recreations. The inventor of it overlooked no detail that could furnish weariness, distress, harassment, and acute and long-sustained misery of mind and body.

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Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

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Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.

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All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.

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Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.

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The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

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I cherish the dreams of yesterday and dare not dwell on the err's of my past whose fate has been long decided, and effect I can not change. For the dreams of yesterday are the challenges of today, and the hope for tomorrow.

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My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

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In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

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Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive their dead, but God does not.

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It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

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Honesty is often the best policy, but sometimes the appearance of it is worth six of it.

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The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

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Would it not be prudent to get our civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in the way of Glass Beads and Theology, and Maxim Guns and Hymn Books, and Trade Gin and Torches of Progress and Enlightenment (patent adjustable ones, good to fire villages with, upon occasion), and balance the books, and arrive at the profit and loss, so that we may intelligently decide whether to continue the business or sellout the property and start a new Civilization Scheme on the proceeds.

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There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach.

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