You are always fussing and fighting with your other weapons. He worked on it intermittently from 1897 through 1908. They all did their best--to kill being the chiefest ambition of the human race and the earliest incident in its history--but only the Christian civilization has scored a triumph to be proud of. “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”– Mark Twain 2. As a race, do you ever use it at all? He has the Moral Sense. he said. The ten thousand high-grade comicalities which exist in the world are sealed from their dull vision. I have taken from this man that trumpery thing which the race regards as a Mind; I have replaced his tin life with a silver-gilt fiction; you see the result--and you criticize!” Inspirational, Funny, Life. A few fair men on the other side will argue and reason against the war with speech and pen, and at first will have a hearing and be applauded; but it will not last long; those others will outshout them, and presently the anti-war audiences will thin out and lose popularity. Like “Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination? All is a dream. “No brute ever does a cruel thing—that is the monopoly of those with the Moral Sense.” Mark Twain. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer.He was lauded as the "greatest humorist [the United States] has produced", and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature".
In a moment you will have realized this, then you will banish me from your visions and I shall dissolve into the nothingness out of which you made me. God—man—the world—the sun, the moon, the wilderness of stars—a dream, all a dream; they have no existence. No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is. "Why, it is merely the truth, and truth is good manners; manners are a fiction. Do you ever use that one? “You can find in a text whatever you bring, if you will stand between it and the mirror of your imagination.
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It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. - Mark Twain “I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else.” Speaking as an expert, I know that ninety- nine out of a hundred of your race were strongly against the killing of witches when that foolishness was first agitated by a handful of pious lunatics in the long ago. God—man—the world—the sun, the moon, the wilderness of stars—a dream, all a dream; they have no existence. The castle is done. "I!"
You belong to a singular race. For the 1920 film, see Frontispiece of 1st edition "Eseldorf was a paradise for us boys"Mark Twain. “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.18, St. Martin's Press 1183 Copy quote. Sometimes for an hour's happiness a man's machinery makes him pay years of misery. And now the whole nation—pulpit and all—will take up the war-cry, and shout itself hoarse, and mob any honest man who ventures to open his mouth; and presently such mouths will cease to open. The elephant is indifferent; I am indifferent.” Mark Twain (2015). The Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts (Kindle Locations 390-391). The Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts (Kindle Locations 57-58). The two functions work together harmoniously, with a fine and delicate precision, on the give-and-take principle. The vast majority of the race, whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind-hearted and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don't dare to assert themselves. God—man—the world—the sun, the moon, the wilderness of stars—a dream, all a dream; they have no existence. “Satan laughed his unkind laugh to a finish; then he said: "It is a remarkable progress. Everything he touches, everything he does, brings a misfortune upon him. 1. Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them--and by laughing at them destroy them? 44". We’d love your help. In a moment you will have realized this, then you will banish me from your visions and I shall dissolve into the nothingness out of which you made me.... "I am perishing already—I am failing—I am passing away. “I have replaced his tin life with a silver-gilt fiction” Some day a handful will rise up on the other side and make the most noise--perhaps even a single daring man with a big voice and a determined front will do it--and in a week all the sheep will wheel and follow him, and witch-hunting will come to a sudden end. he said; "always ready to claim what it hasn't got, and mistake its ounce of brass filings for a ton of gold-dust. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution-- these can lift at a colossal humbug--push it a little--weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. And man has the Moral Sense. And you are not you—you have no body, no blood, no bones, you are but a thought.”
I myself have no existence; I am but a dream--your dream, a creature of your imagination.
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