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Letter "M" » Mark Twain Quotes
«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»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
criminal, efficiency, jury, jury system, marred, twelve
«On Hawaii: The loveliest fleet of islands that lies anchored in any ocean»
«We are all beggars, each in his own way.»
«There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition; there are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Honesty,
Superstition
| Keywords:
six times, This is a
«Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead»
«There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy»
«A man with a hump-backed uncle mustn't make fun of another man's cross-eyed aunt»
«Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Rules
| Keywords:
acquiring, Golden Rule, The Golden Rule
«It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
approval, conform, inborn, requirement, resist, seat, successfully
«Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, Corn-Pone stands for Self-Approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is Conformity.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
approval, associations, broadly, broadly speaking, corn, hardly a, mainly, pone, sympathies
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