It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

About Mark Twain

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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature". Twain's novels include...

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I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.

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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not.

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You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

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There smites nothing so sharp, nor smelleth so sour as shame.

—William Langland

Shame is always easier to handle if you have someone to share it with.

—Craig Thompson in Blankets

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It has become a common feeling, I believe, as we have watched our heroes falling over the years, that our own small stone of activism, which might not seem to measure up to the rugged boulders of heroism we have so admired, is a paltry offering toward the building of an edifice of hope. Many who believe this choose to withhold their offerings out of shame. This is the tragedy of the world. For we can do nothing substantial toward changing our course on the planet, a destructive one, without rousing ourselves, individual by individual, and bringing our small, imperfect stones to the pile.

—Alice Walker

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Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field. It's a scent to them, a smell.

Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.

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