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There is no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level.
We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.
You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do
You can't reason someone out of something that they weren't reasoned into in the first place.
If the world ends, I'll just head on down to Kentucky because they're always 20 years behind.
You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.
Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat.
The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
I have carried a revolver; lots of us do, but they are the most innocent things in the world.
I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any.
If it is a Miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a Fact, proof is necessary
If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is.
Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.
Some civilized women would lose half their charm without dress and some would lose all of it.
God pours out love upon all with a lavish hand -- but He reserves vengeance for His very own.
The difference between those that succeed and those that fail is, those that succeeded tried.
I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.
We Americans worship the almighty dollar! Well, it is a worthier god than Heredity Privilege.
Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.
To do right is wonderful. To teach others to do right is even more wonderful--and much easier.
Death is the starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow.
Learning to play two pairs is worth about as much as a college education, and about as costly.
Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.
To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.
A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.
One of my theories is that the hearts of men are about alike, no matter what their skin color.
A group of men in evening clothes looks like a flock of crows, and is just about as inspiring.
The waves most washed me off the raft sometimes, but I hadn't any clothes on, and didn't mind.
The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin]
Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.
Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.
The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on.
The English are mentioned in the Bible; Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
The [Kodak is] the only witness I have encountered in my long experience that I couldn't bribe.
There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about.
It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.
In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money.
No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests.
Data is like garbage. You'd better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it.
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
There are two reasons why anybody buys anything. The real reason, and the reason they give you.
God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention.
Don't live in the past, don't ponder about the future, stay at the PRESENT moment NOW...always.
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try.