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Merely Quotes by Mark Twain
- Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.
- In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather…
- Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. To live a fulfilled life, we…
- Every improvement that is put upon the real estate is the result of an idea in somebody's head. The skyscraper is another idea; the railroad…
- 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…
- Satan (impatiently) to Newcomer: The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely…
- I'm merely running some errands. This is now off the record.
- Patriotism is merely a religion-love of country, worship of country, devotion to the country's flag and honor and welfare.
- What is the real function, the essential function, the supreme function, of language? Isn't it merely to convey ideas and emotions? Certainly. Then if we…
- Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as…
- Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and effective delivery with…
- What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron despised the race…
- Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.
- Was it my conspicuousness that distressed me? Not at all. It was merely that I was not beautifully conspicuous but uglily conspicuous - it makes…
- Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
- The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
- Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
- The Public is merely a multiplied 'me.'
- there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on earth who writes…
- The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide…
More Merely Quotes
- Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
- A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
- If the enemy is to be coerced, you must put him in a situation that is even more unpleasant than the sacrifice… — Carl von Clausewitz
- If they embark on this course the difference between the old and the new education will be an important one. Where the… — C.S. Lewis
- What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to assimilated as a part of daily… — Bertrand Russell
- Many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by… — Samuel Johnson
- The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that… — Cyrano de Bergerac
- How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release?… — Nellie Bly