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The public is the only critic...

The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all.

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It is best to read the weathe...

It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain.

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Each nation knowing it has th...

Each nation knowing it has the only true religion and the only sane system of government, each despising all the others, each an ass and not suspecting it.

Mark Twain 2884 quotes

Man is the only religious ani...

Man is the only religious animal. In the Holy task of smoothing his brother's path to the happiness of heaven, he has turned the globe into a graveyard.

Mark Twain 2884 quotes

A lie can make it half way ar...

A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

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I never can think of Judas Is...

I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman.

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A public library is the most ...

A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them.

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Give an Irishman lager for a ...

Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him.

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I felt it was my duty to prai...

I felt it was my duty to praise all of God's works with fervent enthusiasm. At the same time I killed flies in my house in a spirit of hatred, exasperation and contempt. My praise to God for all his works was dishonest, the act of killing the fly was honest.

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Man is without doubt the most...

Man is without doubt the most interesting fool there is. He concedes that God made the angels immune from pain and death, and that he could have been similarly kind to man, but denies that he was under any moral obligation to do so.

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Nothing agrees with me. If I...

Nothing agrees with me. If I drink coffee, it gives me dyspepsia; if I drink wine, it gives me the gout; if I go to church, it gives me dysentery.

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Under certain circumstances, ...

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

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Marriage -- yes, it is the su...

Marriage -- yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life. The deeper the love the surer the tragedy. And the more disconsolating when it comes.

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To believe yourself brave is ...

To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.

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The first time a student real...

The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.

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My kind of loyalty was loyalt...

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

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Men and women -- even man and...

Men and women -- even man and wife are foreigners. Each has reserves that the other cannot enter into, nor understand. These have the effect of frontiers.

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I like the truth sometimes, b...

I like the truth sometimes, but I don't care enough for it to hanker after it.

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There is probably no pleasure...

There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it.

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Difference between savage and...

Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded.

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