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Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself. Politics
By Mark Twain
If He Tom Sawyer had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
By Mark Twain
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before.
By Mark Twain
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it. Patriotism
By Mark Twain
If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people.
By Mark Twain
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.
By Mark Twain
I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.
By Mark Twain
That's what an army is -- a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers.
By Mark Twain
There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.
By Mark Twain
The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nation, and from the mass of the nation only -- not from its privileged classes.
By Mark Twain
The newspaper that obstructs the law on a trivial pretext, for money's sake, is a dangerous enemy to the public weal. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.
By Mark Twain
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. Life
By Mark Twain
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. Life
By Mark Twain
In certain circumstances, desperate circumstances, urgent circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
By Mark Twain
There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!
By Mark Twain
Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.
By Mark Twain
A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.
By Mark Twain
To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.
By Mark Twain
We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.
By Mark Twain