Mark Twain — Philosophical Quotes

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Mark Twain Quotes

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Mark Twain

Writer, Humorist

Philosophical

“When a person is accustomed to one hundred and thirty-eight in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable.”

Ideas Eight Weather

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Mark Twain

Writer, Humorist

Philosophical

“If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day.”

Ignorance Honor Study

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Philosophical

“It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval.”

Self Passion

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Philosophical

“It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient.”

Gentle Hinduism

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Philosophical

“We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.”

Life Wisdom Experience Knowledge Experience

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Philosophical

“Every man is in his own person the whole human race without a detail lacking....I knew I should not find in any philosophy a single thought which had not passed through my own head, nor a single thought which had not passed through the heads of millions and millions of men before I was born.”

Men Philosophy Race

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Philosophical

“No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests.”

Interest Accumulation Public Interest

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Philosophical

“The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all.”

May Wisdom Unexamined Life

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Philosophical

“Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows”

House Wind Blow

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Philosophical

“Is a person's public and private opinion the same? It is thought there have been instances.”

Persons Opinion Instance

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Philosophical

“Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight -- this is magnanimity; but bet on the other one -- this is business.”

Fighting Dog Business

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Philosophical

“A man can be a Christian or a patriot, but he can't legally be a Christian and a patriot - except in the usual way: one of the two with the mouth, the other with the heart.”

Men Heart Christian

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