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Mere Quotes by Mark Twain
- After a few months' acquaintance with European 'coffee' one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage…
- The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely honest man appears…
- [The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology.
- ...we all know that in all matters of mere opinion that [every] man is insane-just as insane as we are...we know exactly where to put…
- I never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical organization. It is…
- I am living a new and exalted life of late. It steeps me in a sacred rapture to see a portrait develop and take soul…
- My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing,…
- Probably there is an imperceptible touch of something permanent that one feels instinctively to adhere to true humour, whereas wit may be the mere conversational…
- Humorists of the 'mere' sort cannot survive. Humor is only a fragrance, a decoration.
- What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.
- After a few months' acquaintance with Europeancoffee, one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage of…
More Mere Quotes
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- The great uncertainty of all data in war is because all action, to a certain extent, planned in a mere twilight -… — Carl von Clausewitz
- The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes. — James Agee
- The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application. — Miguel de Cervantes
- Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the… — Jacques Charles
- This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty,… — Thomas Jefferson
- The first man who said "fire burns" was employing scientific method, at any rate if he had allowed himself to be burnt… — Bertrand Russell