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Cannot Quotes by Mark Twain
- Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be…
- The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide…
- When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be…
- I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.
- It was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home - you never find that sort of people among…
- Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm…
- The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves…
- Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself.
- It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Heaven is by favor;…
- Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry…
- A few fly bites cannot stop a spirited horse.
- But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.
- Humorists of the 'mere' sort cannot survive. Humor is only a fragrance, a decoration.
- All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded…
- Men and women -- even man and wife are foreigners. Each has reserves that the other cannot enter into, nor understand. These have the effect…
- Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak. And it is a solemn and weighty responsibility, and not lightly…
- Honesty is the best and the most expensive gift you can give to someone. It brings trust. It makes you trustworthy, which is priceless. Remember,…
- A man cannot be uncomfortable without his own approval
- I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious - unless he purposely shut the eyes of…
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- Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But… — Gerard Arpey
- Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something… — Margaret Atwood
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood
- If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me. — Wystan Hugh Auden
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- Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. — Wystan Hugh Auden