Mark Twain Quotes About Authority
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from the beginning of my sojourn in this world there was a persistent vacancy in me where the industry ought to be. (Ought to was is better, perhaps, though the most of the authorities differ as to this.
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Honor is a harder master than the law.
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Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
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Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary; still, while I cannot go quite so far as that, I do maintain, and I believe I am right, that the young ought to be temperate in the use of this great art until practice and experience shall give them that confidence, elegance and precision which alone can make the accomplishment graceful and profitable.
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Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.
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To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.
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Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.
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To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.
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In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.
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I am technically "boss" of the family which I am carrying along-but I am grateful to know that it is only technically - that the real authority rests on the other side of the house. It is placed there by a beneficent Providence, who foresaw before I was born, or, if he did not, he has found it out since - that I am not in any way qualified to travel alone.
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The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race.
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