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It is agreed, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it is not incumbent on him to care whether the arrangement is satisfactory to anyone else or not.

It is agreed, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it is not incumbent on him to care whether the arrangement is satisfactory to anyone else or not.

Mark Twain
Country, Men, Care
Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.34, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

Mark Twain
Summer, Country, Winter
Mark Twain (2003). “Is He Dead?: A Comedy in Three Acts”, p.185, Univ of California Press

Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety's or comfort's sake, to stand well in his neighbor's eye. These institutions will always remain, and always flourish, and always oppress you, affront you, and degrade you, because you will always be and remain slaves of minorities. There was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.

Mark Twain
Country, Eye, Heart
Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.1338, GENERAL PRESS

The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds of America. They observed that we talked loudly at table sometimes. They noticed that we looked out for expenses and got what we conveniently could out of a franc, and wondered where in the mischief we came from. In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

Mark Twain
Country, Eye, Paris
Mark Twain (1871). “The Innocents Abroad; Or, The New Pilgrim's Progress ...”, p.379

A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.

Mark Twain
Country, Party, Men
Mark Twain (2004). “The Letters of Mark Twain”, p.238, 1st World Publishing

We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off.

Mark Twain
Country, Fashion, Travel
Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4311, Delphi Classics

Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.

Mark Twain
Country, Travel, Heaven
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.574, Univ of California Press

I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says - "Yes; the little ones does".

Mark Twain
Country, Apology, Done
Tom Sawyer Abroad ch. 12 (1894)

God was left out of the Constitution but was furnished a front seat on the coins of the country.

Mark Twain
Country, Coins, Constitution
Mark Twain (2015). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.188, Univ of California Press

That reminds me to remark, in passing, that the very first official thing I did, in my administration-and it was on the first day of it, too-was to start a patent office; for I knew that a country without a patent office and good patent laws was just a crab, and couldn't travel any way but sideways or backways.

Mark Twain
Country, Science, Law
Mark Twain (2012). “Three by Twain: Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and A Connecticut Yankee In King Arther's Court”, p.63, Graphic Arts Books

What a lie it is to call this a free country, where none but the unworthy and undeserving may swear.

Mark Twain
Country, Lying, May
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.381, Courier Corporation

There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.

Mark Twain
Country, Mind, Experts
Mark Twain (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.118, Univ of California Press

The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing, it is the thing to watch over and care for and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous. . . .

Mark Twain
Country, Real, Watches
Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.100, Createspace Independent Pub

I reverently believe that the Maker who made us all makes everything in New England but the weather. I don't know who makes that, but I think it must be raw apprentices in the weather clerk's factory who experiment and learn how, in New England, for board and clothes, and then are promoted to make weather for countries that require a good article, and will take their custom elsewhere if they don't get it...

Mark Twain
Country, Believe, Humor
Mark Twain's "New England Weather" speech, www.pbs.org. 1876.

Patriotism is merely a religion-love of country, worship of country, devotion to the country's flag and honor and welfare.

Mark Twain
Country, Patriotism, Honor
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.349, Courier Corporation

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