Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Mark Twain

Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race‹the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety's or comfort's sake, to stand well in his neighbor's eye. These institutions will always remain, and always flourish, and always oppress you, affront you, and degrade you, because you will always be and remain slaves of minorities. There was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.
Mark Twain

It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.
Mark Twain

Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
Mark Twain

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.
Mark Twain

Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on "The Survival of the Fittest." These are illustrious names, this is a mighty doctrine: nothing can ever remove it from its firm base, nothing dissolve it, but evolution.
Mark Twain

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