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Quotations by author » Mark Twain
American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910
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Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be obeyed by all - and will be
Circumstances
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
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Citizenship is what makes a republic; monarchies can get along without it
Citizenship
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities
Civilization
Civilizations proceed from the heart rather than from the head.
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Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.
ClimateWeather
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd have frozen to death.
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Comedy keeps the heart sweet.
Humor
Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that; it is an enemy to human liberty, and does no good which it could not bet
Power
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass.
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Conformity-the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority
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Conscience takes up more room than all the rest of a person's insides.
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Conscience, man's moral medicine chest
ConscienceMedicine
Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals
Conservatism
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear
AbsenceCourageMemorial day
Custom is petrification; nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century
Custom
Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.
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Death is the starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow
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Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized friend and benefactor of the erring, the forsaken, the old and weary and broken of heart
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