Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The Autocrat of Russia possesses more power than any other man in the earth; but he cannot stop a sneeze. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Now, isn't imagination a precious thing? It peoples the earth with all manner of wonders... — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Ah, heavens and earth, friend, if you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Expression, expression is the thing - in art. I do not care what it expresses, and I cannot most always sometimes tell,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
...nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Of the 417 commandments, only a single one of the 417 has found ministerial obedience; multiply and replenish the earth. To it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The holy passion of friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring in nature that it will last through a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature! — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth--including America, of course-- consist of pilferings from other people's wash.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Each season brings a world of enjoyment and interest in the watching of its unfolding, its gradual harmonious development, its culminating graces-and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is plain that there is one moral law for heaven and another for the earth. The pulpit assures us that wherever… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“SATAN'S LETTER This is a strange place, and extraordinary place, and interesting. There is nothing resembling it at home. The people are… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The reader must not imagine that he is to find in it wisdom, brilliancy, fertility of invention, ingenuity of construction, excellence of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“If we hadn’t our bewitching autumn foliage, we should still have to credit the weather with one feature which compensates for all… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The guide showed us a coffee-colored piece of sculpture which he said was considered to have come from the hand of Phidias,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It was the cool gray dawn, and there was a delicious sense of repose and peace in the deep pervading calm and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It is my prayer, it is my longing, that we may pass from this life together—a longing which shall never perish from… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Now then, in the earth these people cannot stand much church -- an hour and a quarter is the limit, and they… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The English are mentioned in the Bible; Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is nothing but that frail breastwork of earth between the people and destruction. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Because in my nature I have always run to pie, whilst in his nature he has always run to mystery.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share
“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before… — Mark Twain Copy Share
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually… — Mark Twain Copy Share
I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get… — Mark Twain Copy Share
The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get… — Mark Twain Copy Share
“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to… — Mark Twain Copy Share
Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either… — Mark Twain Copy Share
If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and… — Mark Twain Copy Share
You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly… — Mark Twain Copy Share
Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. — Mark Twain Copy Share
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