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Mark Twain Quotes

«Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought / by force of circumstances, not argument / to reconcile itself to any kind of government or religion that can be devised; in time it will fit itself to the required conditions; later it will prefer them and will fiercely fight for them.»
«Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.»
«Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.»
«Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Fame | Keywords: The Vapors, vapor, vapors
«There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.»
«As to the Adjective; when in doubt, strike it out»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Doubt | Keywords: adjective, adjectives, strike
«Balloon: Thing to take meteroric observations and commit suicide with»
«We do no benevolences whose first benefit is not for ourselves»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Benevolence | Keywords: do no
«No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests.»
«Geological time is not money»