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| QUOTE COLLECTIONS OF Mark Twain |
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Quotes By author - Starting with M - Mark Twain
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Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made man is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain.
Subject:
Destruction
Mankind
Human Nature
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He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.
Subject:
Desires
Mankind
Laws
Source: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", Chapter 2
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In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
Subject:
Education
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Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.
Subject:
Life
Endings
Age
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In statesmanship get the formalities right, never mind about the moralities.
Subject:
Politics
Politicians
Sarcasm
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In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.
Subject:
History
World
Sarcasm
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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Subject:
Books
Reading
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Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
Subject:
Laws
Human Nature
Principle
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Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
Subject:
Patriotism
Government
Loyalty
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It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.
Subject:
Sincerity
Honor
Corrupt
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