Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven....The higher animals have no religion. And we are told that they are going to be left out in the Hereafter. I wonder why? It seems questionable taste.
Mark TwainTag: religion
There is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress.
Mark TwainTag: political
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Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty.
Mark TwainWhich is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.
Mark TwainWe are all alike on the inside.
Mark TwainTag: hero-worship
Just when I thought I was learning how to live, 'twas then I realized I was learning how to die.
Mark TwainApril 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.
Mark TwainTag: humor
Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
Mark TwainBut they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war, the desire to kill people to whom I had not been introduced had passed away.
Mark TwainNothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.
- More Maxims of Mark, Johnson, 1927
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