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Accounts Quotes by Mark Twain
- All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.
- Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep in the gutter.…
- The moral of it is this: If you are of any account, stay at home and make your way by faithful diligence; but if you…
- Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.
- Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.
- If a spectacle is going to be particularly imposing I prefer to see it through somebody else's eyes, because that man will always exaggerate. Then…
- Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men…
- Men are like bank accounts. The more money, the more interest they generate.
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- A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds. — Teresa of Avila
- Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we… — J. G. Ballard
- It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do… — Douglas Adams
- Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. — Douglas Adams
- Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs… — Saint Basil
- With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts. — Joseph Addison
- To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine. — Max Beerbohm
- There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings… — Saul Bellow
- To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter, could function… — Pope Benedict XVI
- I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are… — Benazir Bhutto
- No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it's not about… — Joe Biden