Mark Twain Quotes, Believe Quotes

Just because you’re taught that something’s right and everyone believes it’s right, it don’t make it right.

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I went to the circus, and loafed around the back side till the watchman went by, and then dived in under the tent. I had my twenty-dollar gold piece and some other money, but I reckoned I better save it.... I ain't opposed to spending money on circuses, when there ain't no other way, but there ain't no use in wasting it on them.

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Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded.

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Ah, if he could only die temporarily!

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Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well.

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Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

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Frankness is a jewel; only the young can afford it.

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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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Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them.

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Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.

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When I take up one of Jane Austen's books ... I feel like a barkeep entering the kingdom of heaven. I know what his sensation would be and his private comments. He would not find the place to his taste, and he would probably say so.

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Hunger is the handmaid of genius

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We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

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Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men.

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High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

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Good fathers not only tell us how to live, they show us.

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As a rule, we go about with masks, we go about looking honest, and we are able to conceal ourselves all through the day.

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We have the best government that money can buy.

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You cannot have all chiefs; you gotta have Indians too. Perfect love cannot be without equality. A friend to everybody and to nobody is the same thing. We are all alike, on the inside.

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Etiquette requires us to admire the human race.

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