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Kind Quotes by Mark Twain
- The vast majority of the race whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind at heart and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of…
- Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion
- I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind hearted, fat, benevolent people…
- We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip may be depended upon in any…
- There's nobody for me to attack in this matter even with soft and gentle ridicule-and I shouldn't ever think of using a grown up weapon…
- ...the circumstances and the atmosphere always have so much to do in directing a conversation, especially a German conversation, which is only a kind of…
- A man's house burns down. The smoking wreckage represents only a ruined home that was dear through years of use and pleasant associations. By and…
- My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.
- To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.
- He wa'n't no common dog, he wa'n't no mongrel; he was a composite. A composite dog is a dog that is made up of all…
- Is it, perhaps, possible that there are two kinds of Civilization-one for home consumption and one for the heathen market?
- The editor of a newspaper cannot be independent, but must work with one hand tied behind him by party and patrons, and be content to…
- Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government…
- Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought…
- Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with…
- Man is without doubt the most interesting fool there is. He concedes that God made the angels immune from pain and death, and that he…
- Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
- In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
- She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that…
- Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
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- Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought… — Mary Astell
- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this… — Rowan Atkinson
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