Quote by Mark Twain
In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate c

In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer. – Mark Twain

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To be good is noble but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble. – Mark Twain

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Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it aint so. – Mark Twain

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We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years. – Mark Twain

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No language is rude that can boast polite writers. – Aubrey Beardsley

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We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them. – Abigail Adams

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It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense. – Alfred North Whitehead

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Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts. – Karl Kraus, translated from German by Harry Zohn

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Fear not what is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed. – Bhagavad Gita

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If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that mans intelligence and his comprehension… would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. – George Orwell

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