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Thinking Quotes by Mark Twain
- He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.
- Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.
- Man is a marvelous curiosity...he thinks he is the Creator's pet...he even believes the Creator loves him; has passion for him; sits up nights to…
- We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks- if we agree with him.
- There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is…
- Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is.
- I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed I know it. I can…
- It is often the case that a man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one.
- We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which we consider a…
- A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste…
- The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners.
- Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity. He could have…
- As one boy said, 'I was thinking all these horrible thoughts about my parents when suddenly it hit me-if they're all that bad, how come…
- It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as…
- 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…
- 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…
- It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just as you think…
- We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking.
- I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous…
- He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients - no, three, I think - yes, it was three; I attended…
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