Mark Twain quotes - page 5

Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment. (Mark Twain)
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
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Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
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Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
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Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
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It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
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He is now rising from affluence to poverty.
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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.
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Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
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The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.
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Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet. (Mark Twain)
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
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It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain.
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I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.
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Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good.
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What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.
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Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
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It is easier to stay out than get out.
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I don't give a damn for man that can spell a word only one way.
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I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it.
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The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. (Mark Twain)
There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
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The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
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Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.
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October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.
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