Mark Twain Quotes, Freedom Quotes, Blood Quotes

All gentle cant and philosophizing to the contrary notwithstanding, no people in this world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasion: it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed, must begin in blood.

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If it is a Miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a Fact, proof is necessary

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Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.

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He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

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Ah, if he could only die temporarily!

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He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.

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A woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologize.

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The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anybody's whim - anybody's diseased caprice.

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So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment.

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If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. His contributions to the world's list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also away out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers.

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The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it.

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

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The symbol of the race ought to be a human being carrying an ax, for every human being has one concealed about him somewhere, and is always seeking the opportunity to grind it.

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I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want to take on trust. It's a classic ... something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

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To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.

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Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his cigar.

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Simplified spelling is all right, but, like chastity, you can carry it too far.

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The world doesn't owe you anything. It was here first.

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Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.

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July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so

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