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35 Mark Twain Quotes That Eerily Apply To The Current US Election

Mark Twain quotes prove that history repeats itself. 
Jane Drinkard
July 26, 2016
“Now there you have a sample of man’s ‘reasoning powers,’ as he calls them. He observes certain facts. For instance, that in all his life he never sees the day that he can satisfy one woman; also, that no woman ever sees the day that she can’t overwork, and defeat, and put out of commission any ten masculine plants that can be put to bed to her. He puts those strikingly suggestive and luminous facts together, and from them draws this astonishing conclusion: The Creator intended the woman to be restricted to one man.”
— Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth
Tagged: Reason, Man, humanity, Animals, gender, gender inequality, Monogamy, Womanhood, stupidity, Masculinity, toxic masculinity, Woman, hard wok, Logic, creator, God, system, Marriage, marriage & adult relationships
“Man is a marvelous curiosity. When he is at his very very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel; at is worst he is unspeakable, unimaginable; and first and last and all the time he is a sarcasm. Yet he blandly and in all sincerity calls himself the 'noblest work of God.'”
— Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth
Tagged: Man, stupidity, Worth, Value, God, noble, Angels, curious, Reality, Truth, worst, best, Possibility, Sarcasm, humanity, humankind, Human Nature, Religion, idiocy
“More men go to church than want to.”
— Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth
Tagged: Man, stupidity, Worth, Value, God, noble, Angels, curious, Reality, Truth, worst, best, Possibility, Sarcasm, humanity, humankind, Human Nature, Religion, idiocy, Church, Desire, Expectations, Society, pressure, normalcy, Fear
“He said that man’s heart was the only bad heart in the animal kingdom; that man was the only animal capable of feeling malice, envy, vindictiveness, revengefulness, hatred, selfishness, the only animal that loves drunkenness, almost the only animal that could endure personal uncleanliness and a filthy habitation, the sole animal in whom was fully developed the base instinct called patriotism, the sole animal that robs, persecutes, oppresses and kills members of his own tribe, the sole animal that steals and enslaves the members of any tribe.”
— Mark Twain, The Autobiography of Mark Twain
Tagged: Human Nature, heart, Mankind, humanity, Animal Kingdom, savages, Animals, Hatred, Selfish, Bad, Cruelty, Suffering, Happiness, Patriotism, stupidity, hatefulness, Injustice, Slavery, racism
“I know all about audiences, they believe everything you say, except when you are telling the truth.”
— Mark Twain, The Autobiography of Mark Twain
Tagged: Truth, audience, Crowd, humanity, dumb, Irony, idiocy, idiots, Fools, stupidity, normalcy, group mentality, follow, leaders