Mark Twain Quotes, Vanity Quotes, Civilization Quotes

My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.

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God cures and the doctor sends the bill.

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In the laboratory there are no fustian ranks, no brummagem aristocracies; the domain of Science is a republic, and all its citizens are brothers and equals, its princes of Monaco and its stonemasons of Cromarty meeting, barren of man-made gauds and meretricious decorations, upon the one majestic level!

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In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.

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There's a good spot tucked away somewhere in everybody. You'll be a long time finding it, sometimes.

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Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by, you only regret that you didn't see him do it.

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Nearly all black and brown skins are beautiful, but a beautiful white skin is rare.

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Satan (impatiently) to Newcomer: The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most numerous.

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Nothing helps scenery like bacon and eggs.

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For instance, take this sample: he has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights, the one ecstasy that stands first and foremost in the heart of every individual of his race - and of ours - sexual intercourse!It is as if a lost and perishing person in a roasting desert should be told by a rescuer he might choose and have all longed-for things but one, and he should elect to leave out water!

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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.

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I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

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The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all.

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Every man has a secret ambition: To outsmart horses, fish and women.

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To do right is wonderful. To teach others to do right is even more wonderful--and much easier.

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To go abroad has something of the same sense that death brings. I am no longer of ye-what ye say of me is now of no consequence.

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I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out differently

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There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.

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You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

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Two things seemed pretty apparent to me. One was that in order to be a pilot a man had to learn more than any one man ought to learn; and the other was that he must learn it all over again in a different way every 24 hours.

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