Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.
Tag: Mark Twain
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The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.
Great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.