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I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind hearted, fat, benevolent people do.

I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind hearted, fat, benevolent people do.

Mark Twain
People, Greed, Wish
Mark Twain (1994). “Mark Twain on the damned human race”

Broad, wholesome, charitable views .. can not be acquired by vegetating in one's little corner of the earth.

Mark Twain
Adventure, Views, Earth
Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.650, Velvet Element Books

Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography that exists in print anywhere. It makes Nero an angel of light and leading by contrast.

Mark Twain
Atheist, Character, Angel
Mark Twain (1995). “The Bible According to Mark Twain: Writings on Heaven, Eden, and the Flood”, p.319, University of Georgia Press

He said that man’s heart was the only bad heart in the animal kingdom; that man was the only animal capable of feeling malice, envy, vindictiveness, revengefulness, hatred, selfishness, the only animal that loves drunkenness, almost the only animal that could endure personal uncleanliness and a filthy habitation, the sole animal in whom was fully developed the base instinct called patriotism, the sole animal that robs, persecutes, oppresses and kills members of his own tribe, the sole animal that steals and enslaves the members of any tribe.

Mark Twain
Heart, Animal, Men

All saints can do miracles, but few of them can keep a hotel.

Mark Twain
Miracle, Saint, Hotel
Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.30, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.

Mark Twain
Peace, War, Looks

the more I know about people, the better I like my dogs.

Mark Twain
Dog, People, My Dog

Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

Mark Twain
Smell, Giving, Lavender

Put no trust in the benefits to accrue from early rising, as set forth by the infatuated Franklin.

Mark Twain
No Trust, Rising, Benefits
Mark Twain (1981). “Early Tales & Sketches, Vol. 2: 1864 -1865”, p.30, Univ of California Press

Quitting smoking is easy, I've done it hundreds of times.

Mark Twain
Addiction, Smoking, Done

What a world of trouble those who never marry escape! There are many happy matches, it is true, and sometimes "my dear," and "my love" come from the heart; but what sensible bachelor, rejoicing in his freedom and years of discretion, will run the tremendous risk?

Mark Twain
Marriage, Running, Heart
Mark Twain (1979). “Early Tales & Sketches, Vol. 1: 1851-1864”, p.86, Univ of California Press

A man's house burns down. The smoking wreckage represents only a ruined home that was dear through years of use and pleasant associations. By and by, as the days and weeks go on, first he misses this, then that, then the other thing. And when he casts about for it he finds that it was in that house. Always it is an essential - here was but one of its kind. It cannot be replaced. It was in that house. It is irrevocably lost...It will be years before the tale of lost essentials is complete, and not till then can he truly know the magnitude of his disaster.

Mark Twain
Love, Goodbye, Home
Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.26, Univ of Wisconsin Press

Man is the only animal that deals in that atorcity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind.

Mark Twain
War, Animal, Men
Mark Twain (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.84, Univ of California Press

The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.

Mark Twain
Soul, Patriotism, Substance
Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.350, Courier Corporation

No one is willing to acknowledge a fault in himself when a more agreeable motive can be found for the estrangement of his acquaintances.

Mark Twain
Faults, Found, Motive
Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1915). “The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-day”, p.143

There is no other life; life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing exists but space and you. If there was an all-powerful God, he would have made all good, and no bad.

Mark Twain
Dream, Powerful, Fear

It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.

Mark Twain
Summer, Time, June
Mark Twain (1998). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations”, p.30, Courier Corporation

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

Mark Twain
Inspirational, Funny, Wisdom
The Innocents Abroad (1869) ch. 7

We are all alike, on the inside.

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

The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell, together, as quickly as possible.

Mark Twain
Writing, Character, Land

Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.

Mark Twain
Inspiration, Writing, Scream

We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.

Mark Twain
Liberty, Ark, Literature

The Mississippi River towns are comely, clean, well built, and pleasing to the eye, and cheering to the spirit. The Mississippi Valley is as reposeful as a dreamland, nothing worldly about it . . . nothing to hang a fret or a worry upon.

Mark Twain
Cheer, Eye, Rivers

An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.

Mark Twain
Appreciation, Writing, Compliment
Mark Twain (2015). “The Prince and the Pauper (StoneHenge Classics)”, p.154, StoneHenge Classics

We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.

Mark Twain
Mom, Baby, Common
Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.2170, GENERAL PRESS

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