We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Mark Twain
We are chameleons, and our partialities …
We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.
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We have a criminal jury system which is …
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.
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We had the sky up there, and we used to …
We had the sky up there, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss whether they was made or just happened.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Mark Twain
We should be careful to get out of an ex…
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again – and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
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What a good thing Adam had. When he said…
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
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What counts is not necessarily the size …
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, what counts is the size of the fight in the dog.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Mark Twain
When I was a child people simply looked …
When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.
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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father …
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
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When I was younger, I could remember any…
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Mark Twain