[Mankind] is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it.
Tag: Mark Twain
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In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.
Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.