More from Samuel Langhorne Clemens

  1. It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.
  2. I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.
  3. Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.
  4. Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
  5. Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired,…
  6. The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
  7. A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect …
  8. You tell me whar a man gits his corn pone, en I'll tell you what his 'pinions is.

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