Artificiality Quote by Mark Twain

“The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anybody's whim - anybody's diseased caprice.”

Mark Twain

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Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.

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If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they "artialize" nature.

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It's too much show business and too much prompting, too much artificiality, and not really debates. They're rehearsed appearances.

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Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world.

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