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Human Nature Quotes by Mark Twain
- A sense of humor is the one thing no one will admit to not having.
- Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.
- You can never find a Christian who has acquired this valuable knowledge, this saving knowledge, by any process but the everlasting and all-sufficient 'people say.'
- Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.
- A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
- Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
- Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
- Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing…
- Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
- The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.
- Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made…
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