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Quote by Mark Twain
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudi

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice. – Mark Twain

Other quotes by Mark Twain

It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want — oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so! – Mark Twain

Category:
Springtime
Author
Mark Twain
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It isnt safe to sit in judgment upon another persons illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet. – Mark Twain

Category:
Illusion
Author
Mark Twain
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In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. – Mark Twain

Category:
Education
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Mark Twain
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Other Quotes from
History
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Life isnt meant to be easy. Its hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess Im something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another. – Richard M. Nixon

Category:
History

History begins in novel and ends in essay. – Thomas Babington Macaulay

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History

I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because I cannot remember a single thing. I can barely remember where Scotland is. – Hugh Laurie

Category:
History

History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought – two boys pushing each other on the curbstone of the pavement. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life: Fate

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History

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The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. He plies the slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation. He is the worlds eye. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Scholars, Scholarship

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. – Martin L. Gross, A Call for Revolution, 1993

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Philosophy

Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy! – Thomas Carlyle

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Health

I sure saw a lot of kids that Im sure didnt know a lot about us, or we were definitely new to them. The kids who came up to me afterward, wed talk about music, sign a lot of autographs. So Im sure we made a lot of new fans. – Joan Jett

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Music