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Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

Mark Twain
Motivational, Positive, Pain
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.94, Courier Corporation

Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one... that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain.

Mark Twain
Sports, Dog, Pain

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made he (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one...that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

Mark Twain
Sports, Dog, Pain

Sometimes people do get hurt

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

Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

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

Man is without doubt the most interesting fool there is. He concedes that God made the angels immune from pain and death, and that he could have been similarly kind to man, but denies that he was under any moral obligation to do so.

Mark Twain
Pain, Angel, Men

The vast majority of the race whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind at heart and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don't dare to assert themselves.

Mark Twain
Pain, Heart, Race
Mark Twain (1992). “The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories”, p.110, Courier Corporation

I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.

Mark Twain
Pain, Animal, Vegetarianism

The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get a set which can really be depended on 'till a dentist makes him one.

Mark Twain
Pain, Animal, Men
The Damned Human Race

Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it.

Mark Twain
Pain, Revenge, Lying
Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.57, St. Martin's Press

O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain.

Mark Twain
Pain, Gun, Soldier
Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.502, Courier Corporation

To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both.

Mark Twain
Travel, Pain, Care
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.131, Courier Corporation

Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin?

Mark Twain
Pain, Baptists, Dublin
Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4285, Delphi Classics

Do not undervalue the headache. While it is at its sharpest it seems a bad investment; but when relief begins, the unexpired remainder is worth $4 a minute.

Mark Twain
Pain, Relief, Investment
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.175, Courier Corporation

Our consciences take no notice of pain inflicted on others until it reaches a point where it gives pain to us.

Mark Twain
Pain, Giving, Conscience
Mark Twain (2015). “Mark Twain's Essays: Top Essays”, p.21, 谷月社

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