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- The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Notebook, 1935
- It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), What Is Man? (1906)
- It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession, what there is of it.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator
- A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator
- Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), A Connecticult Yankee in King Arthur's Court
- The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Pudd'nhead Wilson
- I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), "Is Shakespeare Dead?"
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