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Doe Quotes by Mark Twain
- Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.
- The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had…
- He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.
- In forgiving, people are not being asked to forget. On the contrary, it is important to remember, so that we should not let such atrocities…
- Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is…
- We have to keep our God placated with prayer, and even then we are never sure of him-how much higher and finer is the Indian's…
- Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive their dead, but God does not.
- The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets…
- Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does…
- Man is the only slave. And he is the only animal who enslaves. He has always been a slave in one form or another, and…
- Well - Patriotism has its laws. And it also is a perfectly definite one, there are not vaguenesses about it. It commands that the brother…
- A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.
- The citizen who sees his society's democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry it out, is not a patriot, but a traitor.
- Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brains. But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount…
- Why should anybody want to save the human race, or damn it either? Does God want its society? Does Satan?
- You may say a cat uses good grammar. Well, a cat does -- but you let a cat get excited once; you let a cat…
- But that's always the way; it don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just…
- Authorship is not a trade, it is an inspiration; authorship does not keep an office, its habitation is all out under the sky, and everywhere…
- Good judgment comes from experience. And where does experience come from? Experience comes from bad judgment.
- An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't…
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- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- True information does good. — Julian Assange