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  • It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

    Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.304, Univ of California Press
  • What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.

  • I have learned that human existence is essentially tragic. It is only the love of God, disclosed and enacted in Christ, that redeems the human tragedy and makes it tolerable. No, more than tolerable. Wonderful.

  • Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on.

    Mark Twain (2003). “Tales of Wonder”, p.304, U of Nebraska Press
  • If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.

    Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.21, St. Martin's Press
  • The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.

    Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.264, Univ of California Press
  • To eat is human, to digest, divine

    Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.49, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?

    Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.187, Courier Corporation
  • One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

    Funny  
    Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 7, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)
  • If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.

  • I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being-that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.

    "Concerning the Jews" (1899)
  • But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

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    Mark Twain (2012). “Autobiographical Writings”, p.338, Penguin
  • Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.

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    Mark Twain (2015). “A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.9, 谷月社
  • It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it.

    Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.1338, GENERAL PRESS
  • It is your human environment that makes climate

    Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.52, Courier Corporation
  • There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

    Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.291, Createspace Independent Pub
  • You may call a jay a bird. Well, so he is, in a measure--because he's got feathers on him, and don't belong to no church, perhaps;but otherwise he is just as much a human as you be. And I'll tell you for why. A jay's gifts and instincts, and feelings, and interests, cover the whole ground. A jay hasn't got any more principle than a Congressman.

    Mark Twain (1994). “Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches”, p.163, Penguin
  • We are all alike, on the inside.

    Mark Twain (1940). “Mark Twain in eruption: hitherto unpublished pages about men and events”, Harper & Brothers
  • But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our one fellow and brother who most needed a friend yet had not a single one, the one sinner among us all who had the highest and clearest right to every Christian's daily and nightly prayers, for the plain and unassailable reason that his was the first and greatest need, he being among sinners the supremest?

    Prayer  
    Mark Twain (1960). “The autobiography of Mark Twain: including chapters now published for the first time”
  • Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

    Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.504, Courier Corporation
  • We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

    Following the Equator ch. 11, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)
  • I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.

    Mark Twain (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.81, Univ of California Press
  • The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race.

    Mark Twain, Michael Barry Frank, Robert Pack Browning, Lin Salamo, Frederick Anderson, Mark Twain (1980). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume III: (1883-1891)”, p.424, Univ of California Press
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