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Mark Twain Quotes

«The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad--but whiskey!»
«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.»
«Get the facts first. You can distort them later.»
«History does not repeat itself. But it does rhyme.»
«There is nothing so annoying as a good example!!»
«If you don't like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes.»
«It is nobler to be good, and it is nobler to teach others to be good -- and less trouble!»
«A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.»
«I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won t.»
«All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.1908, notebook»