I haven’t a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.
~ Mark Twain

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Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.
~ Mark Twain

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The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
~ Mark Twain

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A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
~ Mark Twain

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Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered — either by themselves or by others. But for the Civil War, Lincoln and Grant and Sherman and Sheridan would not have been discovered, nor have risen into notice.
~ Mark Twain

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You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
~ Mark Twain

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Virtue never has been as respectable as money.
~ Mark Twain

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To put it in rude, plain, unpalatable words — true patriotism, real patriotism is: loyalty not to a family and a fiction, but a loyalty to the nation itself.
~ Mark Twain

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