Mark Twain Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Courage Quotes

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

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Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR per G.G., CHIEF OF ORDNANCE

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It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.

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The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.

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You have noticed that the human being is a curiosity. In times past he has had (and worn out and flung away) hundreds and hundreds of religions; today he has hundreds and hundreds of religions, and launches not fewer than three new ones every year. I could enlarge on that number and still be within the facts.

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And I urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go.

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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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The election makes me think of a story of a man who was dying. He had only two minutes to live, so he sent for a clergyman and asked him, "Where is the best place to go to?" He was undecided about it. So the minister told him that each place had its advantages--heaven for climate, and hell for society.

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Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

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There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away from owner after owner, cycle afer cycle, by force and bloodshed.

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There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one?

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We have infinite trouble in solving man-made mysteries; it is only when we set out to discover "the secret of God" that our difficulties disappear.

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These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme.

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We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

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I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the world. As a sweetheart, she has few equals and no superiors; as a cousin, she is convenient; as a wealthy grandmother with an incurable distemper, she is precious; as a wet-nurse, she has no equal among men. What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

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It is noble to teach oneself; it is still nobler to teach others.

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The New York papers have long known that no large question is ever really settled until I have been consulted.

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There is no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level.

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It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone.

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Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.

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