Mark Twain Quotes, Knives Quotes, Civilization Quotes

It is yet another Civilized Power, with its banner of the Prince of Peace in one hand and its loot-basket and its butcher-knife in the other. Is there no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level?.

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Two days overdue, THE WORLD'S WORK has not reached me. Pray make a note of this. I would rather not have to resort to violence.

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The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all.

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To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.

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There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.

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There is no security in life, only opportunity.

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The future interests me - I'm going to spend the rest of my life there.

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Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.

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She remained both girl and woman to the last day of her life. Under a grave and gentle exterior burned inextinguishable fires of sympathy, energy, devotion, enthusiasm, and absolutely limitless affection.

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I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way: by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else... I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road.

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Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century.

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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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Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

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I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.

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That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

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The community is eminently Portuguese - that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy.

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Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.

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Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school and how we grieved when our marbles were lost and our kites destroyed – because we have forgotten all the sorrows and privations of the canonized ethic and remember only its orchard robberies, its wooden-sword pageants, and its fishing holidays.

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Data is like garbage. You'd better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it.

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Death is the starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow.

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