Mark Twain Quotes, Men Quotes, Rights Quotes

I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting some false and most pernicious notions about consistency - and to such a degree that the average man has turned the rights and wrongs of things entirely around and is proud to be "consistent," unchanging, immovable, fossilized, where it should be his humiliation.

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History doesn't repeat itself; it rhymes.

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First catch your Boer, then kick him.

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Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.

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isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.

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Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

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We called him Barney for short. We couldn't use his real name, there wasn't time.

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What a lie it is to call this a free country, where none but the unworthy and undeserving may swear.

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It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man who, not being able to find any other fault with his coal, complained that there were too many prehistoric toads in it.

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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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We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without music.

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Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river.

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People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.

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Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

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It is the Creator´s Grand Army, and he is the Commander-in-Chief... With these facts before you, now try to guess man´s chiefest pet name for this ferocious Commander-in-Chief? I will save you the trouble but you must not laugh. It is Our Father in Heaven.

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The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it

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Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.

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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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For a male person bric-a-brac hunting is about as robust a business as making doll-clothes.

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When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

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