Mark Twain Quotes, Mean Quotes, People Quotes

Like most people, I often feel mean, and act accordingly.

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My land, the power of training! Of influence! Of education! It can bring a body up to believe anything.

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...heaven for climate, and hell for society.

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Learn from the mistakes of others - you won't live long enough to make them all yourself. He's opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer him the position.

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All you drunkards: Put down the intoxicating Vanity Metrics.

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Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.

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Education is what you must acquire without any interference from your schooling.

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Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity - these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them. They hide nothing. They are not ashamed.

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I never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical organization. It is likely that such a very liberal amount of space was given to the organ which enables me to make promises that the organ which should enable me to keep them was crowded out. But I grieve not. I like no half-way things. I had rather have one faculty nobly developed than two faculties of mere ordinary capacity.

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An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.

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More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.

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[N]o country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.

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Sufficient unto the day is one baby. As long as you are in your right mind don't you ever pray for twins. Twins amount to a permanent riot; and there ain't any real difference between triplets and a insurrection. - The Babies speech 1879

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I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says - "Yes; the little ones does".

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The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example

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Education is what remains when what is learned has been taken away.

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It was the most earnest ambition I ever had....Not that I ever really wanted to be a preacher, but because it never occurred to me that a preacher could be damned. It looked like a safe job.

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God pours out love upon all with a lavish hand -- but He reserves vengeance for His very own.

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The peoples furthest from civilization are the ones where equality between man and woman are furthest apart-and we consider this one of the signs of savagery.

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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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