Mark Twain Quotes, Dog Quotes, Animal Quotes

I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.

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She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

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Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.

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The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.

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If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. His contributions to the world's list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also away out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers.

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Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.

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I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.

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Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is not at one time or another an unconscious one.

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I'm a very old man. I've had lots of problems. Most of them never happened..!

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Stars and shadows ain't good to see by.

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I hate editors, for they make me abandon a lot of perfectly good English words.

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I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

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It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

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English humor is hard to appreciate, though, unless you are trained to it. The English papers, in reporting my speeches, always put 'laughter' in the wrong place.

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Rags, wretchedness, poverty and dirt, those signs and symbols that indicate the presence of [Muslim] rule more surely than the crescent-flag itself, abound.

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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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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

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Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

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Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type.

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Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak.

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