Mark Twain Quotes, Speech Quotes

None but the dead have free speech.

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Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.

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The best of us would rather be popular than right.

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Bridgeport?" Said I. "Camelot," Said he.

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Citizenship is what makes a republic - monarchies can get along without it.

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It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

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That is a simple rule, and easy to remember. When I, a thoughtful and unblessed Presbyterian, examine the Koran, I know that beyond any question every Mohammedan is insane; not in all things, but in religious matters.

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If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.

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Sacred cows make the best hamburger.

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The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.

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A soiled baby with a neglected nose cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.

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If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?

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We don't cut up when mad men are bred by the old legitimate regular stock religions, but we can't allow wildcat religions to indulge in such disastrous experiments.

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The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable.

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I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in either a small way or a large way.

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Life was a fairy-tale, then, it is a tragedy now. When I was 43 and John Hay 41 he said life was a tragedy after 40, and I disputed it. Three years ago he asked me to testify again: I counted my graves, and there was nothing for me to say. I am old; I recognize it but I don't realize it. I wonder if a person ever really ceases to feel young - I mean, for a whole day at a time.

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Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.

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An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans.

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Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance.

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The solution to our water problems is more rain.

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