Mark Twain Quotes, Strength Quotes, Mistake Quotes

A jackass has that kind of strength, and puts it to a useful purpose, and is valuable to the world because he is a jackass; but anobleman is not valuable because he is a jackass. It is a mixture that is always ineffectual, and should never have been attempted in the first place. And yet, once you start a mistake, the trouble is done and you never know what is going to come of it.

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Apparently one of the most uncertain things in the world is the funeral of a religion.

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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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I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.

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That optimist of yours is always ready to turn hell's backyard into a play-ground.

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My heart goes out to anyone who is making his first appearance before an audience of human beings.

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I will remark in the way of general information, that in California, that land of felicitous nomenclature, the literary name of this sort of stuff is "hogwash"

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Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.

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I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it.

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We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking.

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The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes away and dissolves into correctness, knowing it will never visit his bereaved ear again.

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In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

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Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

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Civilizations proceed from the heart rather than from the head.

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I never made a success of a lecture delivered in a church yet. People are afraid to laugh in a church. They can't be made to do it in any possible way.

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I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn't.

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

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India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

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Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be obeyed by all - and will be

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They did not know it was impossible so they did it

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