Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyerand its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the latter often called "The Great American Novel"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 November 1835
CountryUnited States of America
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Loyalty to petrified opinion never broke a chain or freed a human soul.
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My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to... its office holders.
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The primary rule of business success is loyalty to your employer. That's all right as a theory. What is the matter with loyalty to yourself?
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Remember this, take this to heart, live by it, die for it if necessary: that our patriotism is medieval, outworn, obsolete; that the modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism, is loyalty to the Nation ALL the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.
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Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
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Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.
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Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
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My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.
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Loyalty is a word which has worked vast harm; for it has been made to trick men into being "loyal" to a thousand iniquities, whereas the true loyalty should have been to themselves - in which case there would have ensured a rebellion, and the throwing off of that deceptive yoke.
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Independence - is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes
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What's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?
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When a man's dog turns against him it is time for a wife to pack her trunk and go home to mama
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When a man is known to have no settled convictions of his own he can't convict other people
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The statue that advertises its modesty with a fig leaf really brings its modesty under suspicion