You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

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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The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

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

perception man vanity impertinence

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

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What mattered was not what happens to you, but how you handle it. Self-command is required to overcome the dangerous misinformation of our emotions, and because for the most part the self is the only thing that we can command. We have no control, ultimately, over what people do or think. What we can influence is our understanding of these circumstances and how we respond to them.

—Joseph Baretti

To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human.

—Bertrand Russell

One man with courage makes a majority.

—Andy and Larry Wachowski

So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.

—Andrew Jackson

Every man has three characters-that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

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