What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.
MARK TWAINWhen we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.
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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
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It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.
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A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
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If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.
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Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.
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The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
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I haven’t any right to criticize books, and I don’t do it except when I hate them.
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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
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There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.
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Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.
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Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
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History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
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It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
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