More from Samuel Langhorne Clemens

  1. If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost in th…
  2. The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong prov…
  3. These facts are all on the credit side of the proposition that the Jew is a good and orderly citizen. Summed up, they certify that he is qu…
  4. But the truth is, that when a Library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age c…
  5. A Jewish beggar is not impossible, perhaps; such a thing may exist, but there are few men that can say they have seen that spectacle.
  6. Citizenship? We have none! In place of it we teach patriotism which Samuel Johnson said a hundred and forty or a hundred and fifty years ag…
  7. The Jew is not a disturber of the peace of any country. Even his enemies will concede that. He is not a loafer, he is not a sot, he is not …
  8. Herodotus says, 'Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct thes…

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