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Mankind Quotes by Mark Twain
- It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
- Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.
- Etiquette requires us to admire the human race.
- If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.
- The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.
- We are all alike, on the inside.
- Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
- Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
- Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
- What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.
- Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
- Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody
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