It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
Mark TwainTag: animal
The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.
Mark TwainEvidence ... proves that prohibition only drives drunkenness behind closed doors and into dark places, and it does not cure it or even diminish it.
Mark TwainA man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
Mark TwainTag: truth
Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.
Mark TwainWe have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.
Mark TwainWhen people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.
Mark TwainThey mourned for his kind of Christianity, and he frankly scoffed at theirs; but both parties went on loving each other just the same.
Mark TwainAs to the adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.
Mark TwainTag: on-writing
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
Mark TwainTag: habits
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