Mark Twain Quotes, Change Quotes, Prejudice Quotes

We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blesses facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.

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I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds.

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The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.

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That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

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One of my theories is that the hearts of men are about alike, no matter what their skin color.

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If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it.

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I am living a new and exalted life of late. It steeps me in a sacred rapture to see a portrait develop and take soul under my hand. First, I throw off a study - just a mere study, a few apparently random lines - and to look at it you would hardly ever suspect who it was going to be; even I cannot tell, myself.

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The southerner talks music.

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It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it is for any other foreigner to read the terrible German script.

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I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble.

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I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.

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When all is said and done, the one sole condition that makes spiritual happiness and preserves it is the absence of doubt.

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Narrative should flow as flows the brook down through the hills and the leafy woodlands...a brook that never goes straight for a minute, but goes and goes briskly, sometimes ungrammatically, and sometimes fetching a horseshoe of ¾ of a mile around and at the end of the circuit flowing within a yard of the path that it traversed an hour before; but always going and always following at least one law, always loyal to that law, the law of narrative, which has no law. Nothing to do but make the trip; the how of it is not important, so that the trip is made.

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If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never get her full confidence again.

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I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

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When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.

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Names are not always what they seem.

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Benefit of clergy: Half-rate on the railroad.

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The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin]

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I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

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