Quotes Mark Twain - page 19
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Whenever the human race assembles to a number exceeding four, it cannot stand free speech.
None but the dead have free speech.
Where are there are two desires in a man's heart he has no choice between the two but must obey the strongest, there being no such thing as free will in the composition of any human being that ever lived.
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...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting.
Start it at no particular time of your life; wander at your free will all over your life; talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment; drop it the moment its interest threatens to pale.
No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be obeyed by all - and will be
A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty.
There are two things nobody should ever have to watch being made, sausage and laws.
People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either being made.
In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made.
Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.
The peoples furthest from civilization are the ones where equality between man and woman are furthest apart-and we consider this one of the signs of savagery.
There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.
The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.
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The vast majority of the race whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind at heart and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don't dare to assert themselves.
