More by Mark Twain...
"It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible."
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"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear."
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"It is noble to be good; it is still nobler to teach others to be good -- and less trouble."
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"The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet."
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"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress."
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"I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse."
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"The New York papers have long known that no large question is ever really settled until I have been consulted."
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"Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it."
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"In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination."
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"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
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"There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life that he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure."
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"Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight -- this is magnanimity; but bet on the other one -- this is business."
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"Where prejudice exists it always discolors our thoughts."
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