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Mark Twain Quotes - Page 19

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Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.

Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.

Art, Honesty, Lost

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.180, Courier Corporation

And how moving is the eloquence of the untaught when it is the heart that is speaking!

Moving, Heart, Eloquence

Mark Twain (1972). “Everyone's Mark Twain”

The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.

Differences, Miracle, Mermaid

Mark Twain (1962). “Letters from the Earth”

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

Inspirational, Life, Death

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.401, Courier Corporation

When a humorist ventures upon the grave concerns of life he must do his job better than another man or he works harm to his cause.

Jobs, Men, Venture

Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.6747, Delphi Classics

Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.

German Language, Giving, Awful

Mark Twain (1976). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume II: (1877-1883)”, p.121, Univ of California Press

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.

Country, Integrity, 4th Of July

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

Funny, Inspiration, Humor

Mark Twain (2008). “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Penguin Enriched eBook Classic”, p.1053, Penguin

The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.

Laughter, Political, United States

Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain in Eruption (Abridged, Annotated)”, p.58, BIG BYTE BOOKS

Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone-if still alive.

4th Of July, Eight, Gone

Mark Twain, Charles Neider (1961). “The travels of Mark Twain”

There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing and predatory as it is - in our country particularly, and in all other Christian countries in a somewhat modified degree - it is still a hundred times better than the Christianity of the Bible, with its prodigious crime- the invention of Hell.

Christian, Country, Degrees

Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.132, Univ of California Press

All men are ignorant, just on different subjects.

Men, Ignorant, Different

I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.

Religious, Men, Religion

Mark Twain (2015). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.133, Univ of California Press

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

Funny, Sarcastic, Sex

Notebook, 1894

You can tell German wine from vinegar by the label.

Drinking, Wine, Labels

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race.

Inspiration, Humility, Race

Mark Twain, Michael Barry Frank, Robert Pack Browning, Lin Salamo, Frederick Anderson, Mark Twain (1980). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume III: (1883-1891)”, p.424, Univ of California Press

I wish Europe would let Russia annihilate Turkey a little--not much, but enough to make it difficult to find the place again without a divining-rod or a diving-bell.

Russia, Europe, Turkeys

Mark Twain (1869). “The Innocents Abroad: or, The New Pilgrims' Progress”, p.443

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.

Wisdom, Men, Names

A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

Time, Lying, Society

What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.

Father, Men, Monkeys

Mark Twain (1940). “Mark Twain in eruption: hitherto unpublished pages about men and events”, Harper & Brothers

I simply can´t resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside of the girl you love, of course.

Girl, Cat, Intelligent

Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.135, Chartwell

Sometimes people do get hurt

Hurt, Pain, People

Mark Twain (1992). “Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn”, p.336, Wordsworth Editions

Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination.

Book, Thinking, Imagination

There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.

Education, Men, Training

I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.

Country, Prayer, Taxation

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.467, Courier Corporation

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