Quote by Mark Twain
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed. - Mark

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed. – Mark Twain

Other quotes by Mark Twain

He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages. – Mark Twain

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Futility
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God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board. – Mark Twain

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God
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Integrity
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I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves — such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine. The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. – Albert Einstein, “What I Believe,” Forum and Century, 1930

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Integrity

Everyone complains of his memory, but no one complains of his judgment. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665

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Character is higher than intellect. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Integrity

Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. – Aristotle

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Man is by nature a political animal. – Aristotle

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Nature

I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment. – Pat Buckley

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Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us and it was very still but there were whispers. – Black Elk

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alone

We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government. – William Howard Taft

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Government