Mark Twain Quotes, Civilization Quotes, Pioneers Quotes

The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey!

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What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.

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The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.

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In my experience, previously counted chickens never do hatch.

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Nevertheless we have this curious spectacle: daily the trained parrot in the pulpit gravely delivers himself of these ironies, which he has acquired at second-hand and adopted without examination, to a trained congregation which accepts them without examination, and neither the speaker nor the hearer laughs at himself. It does seem as if we ought to be humble when we are at a bench-show, and not put on airs of intellectual superiority there.

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Our consciences take no notice of pain inflicted on others until it reaches a point where it gives pain to us.

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If a spectacle is going to be particularly imposing I prefer to see it through somebody else's eyes, because that man will always exaggerate. Then I can exaggerate his exaggeration, and my account of the thing will be the most impressive.

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We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically at least.

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A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it.

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Now, isn't imagination a precious thing? It peoples the earth with all manner of wonders.

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Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

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Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it.

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I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.

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Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

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To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth.

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If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time.

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Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.

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I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

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We Americans worship the almighty dollar! Well, it is a worthier god than Heredity Privilege.

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