Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is wrong. There is no other… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I do not know what we should do without the pulpit. We could better spare the sun-the moon, anyway. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
'Don't you worry, and don't you hurry.' I know that phrase by heart, and if all other music should perish out of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Why should anybody want to save the human race, or damn it either? Does God want its society? Does Satan? — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his cigar. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A private should preserve a respectful attitude toward his superiors, and should seldom or never proceed so far as to offer suggestions… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Loyalty is a word which has worked vast harm; for it has been made to trick men into being "loyal" to a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Leaving out the gamblers, the burglars, and the plumbers, perhaps we do put our trust in God after a fashion. But, after… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A jackass has that kind of strength, and puts it to a useful purpose, and is valuable to the world because he… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Every man is in his own person the whole human race without a detail lacking…I knew I should not find in any… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Wherefore, I beseech you let the dog and the onions and these people of the strange and godless names work out their… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If they [the dead] should speak, it would be found that in matters of opinion no departed person was exactly what he… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Drop this mean and sordid and selfish devotion to the saving of your shabby little souls, and hunt up something to do… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In forgiving, people are not being asked to forget. On the contrary, it is important to remember, so that we should not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting some false and most pernicious notions about consistency - and to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A Christian's first duty is to God. It then follows, as a matter of course, that it is his duty to carry… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In our day we don't allow a hundred and thirty years to elapse between glimpses of a marvel. If somebody should discover… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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