Quote #191

Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

More from Mark Twain

  1. There is nothing lower than the human race except the French.
  2. They did not know it was impossible, so they did it!
  3. There are no dialogues, only intersecting monologues.
  4. The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
  5. There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
  6. 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…
  7. If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed. (Sometimes quoted as newspapers.)
  8. The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.

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