The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

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About Mark Twain

Portrait of Mark Twain

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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We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

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Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

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I can live for two months on a good compliment.

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All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

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I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

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The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.

—Patrick Young

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How could it be right that some people had so much, while others had so little?

—Ruth Ware in The Death of Mrs. Westaway

Monetary donations to a spiritual cause, contributions of physical labor, involvement with a particular guru, none of these necessarily mean that we have actually committed ourselves to openness. More likely these kinds of commitments are simply ways of proving that we have joined the side of "right.

—Chögyam Trungpa

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Sometimes you can do everything right and things will still go wrong. The key is to never stop doing right.

—Angie Thomas in The Hate U Give

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It might be the biggest mistake of her life, but being here with him felt right.

—Leia Shaw in Boy Meets Nerd

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