More from Samuel Langhorne Clemens

  1. Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
  2. Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all - the soiled and the pure, the ri…
  3. Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
  4. 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, f…
  5. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
  6. None but the dead have free speech.
  7. France has usually been governed by prostitutes.
  8. Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, & over these ideals they dispute & cannot unite - but the…

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