When people do not respect us we are sharply offended yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.
Quote by Mark Twain
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When people do not respect us we are sharply offended yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.
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Mark Twain Quotes
- Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
- Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
- Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
- Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
- Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
- Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
- It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
- Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress but I repeat myself.
- Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
Best Quotes
- Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.
- Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.
- I'm always going to live in Texas. Texas is my home - it'll be my home forever.
- If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.
- There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
- People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided by the EU. That needs to change.
- Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
- The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.
- Abused patience turns to fury.
- God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.