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Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat.
Patriotism is merely a religion--love of country, worship of country, devotion to the country's flag and honor and welfare.
Mark Twain, "As Regards Patriotism"
Spiritual wants and instincts are as various in the human family as are physical appetites, complexions, and features, and a man is only at his best, morally, when he is equipped with the religious garment whose color and shape and size most nicely accomodate themselves to the spiritual complexion, angularities, and stature of the individual who wears it.
MARK TWAIN, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
I was afraid of a united Church; it makes a mighty power, the mightiest conceivable, and then when it by and by gets into selfish hands, as it is always bound to do, it means death to human liberty and paralysis to human thought.
MARK TWAIN, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.
MARK TWAIN, attributed, Unlimited Power
In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
MARK TWAIN, Mark Twain's Notebook
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