France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
~ Mark Twain

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Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
~ Mark Twain

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Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
~ Mark Twain

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Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion — several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn’t straight.
~ Mark Twain

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He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.
~ Mark Twain

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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
~ Mark Twain

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Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.
~ Mark Twain

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Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
~ Mark Twain

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Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.
~ Mark Twain

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