Mark Twain Quotes, Book Quotes, Moral Quotes

We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically at least.

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I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.

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Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.

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Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

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Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles

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A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.

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Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community, and I'll tell you what his opinions are.

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Man is the only slave. And he is the only animal who enslaves. He has always been a slave in one form or another, and has always held other slaves in bondage under him in one way or another. In our day, he is always some man's slave for wages, and does that man's work; and this slave has other slaves under him for minor wages, and they do his work. The higher animals are the only ones who exclusively do their own work and provide their own living.

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How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good.

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Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.

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In German, a young lady has no sex, but a turnip has

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I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in either a small way or a large way.

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Death is the starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow.

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If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

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The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from the mass of the nation only-not from its privileged classes.

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It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient.

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Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.

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The old saw says, 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Right. Still, when there is much at stake it is better to get a newspaper to do it.

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A dream...I was trying to explain to St. Peter, and was doing it in the German tongue, because I didn't want to be too explicit.

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What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.

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