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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My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to... its office holders.
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Loyalty to petrified opinion never broke a chain or freed a human soul.
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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 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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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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When I was a boy on the Mississippi River there was a proposition in a township there to discontinue public schools because they were too expensive. An old farmer spoke up and said if they stopped building the schools they would not save anything, because every time a school was closed a jail had to be built.
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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he'd learned in seven years.
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We have no permanent brains until we are forty. Then they begin to harden, presently they petrify, then business begins. Since forty I have been regular about going to bed and getting up -- and that is one of the main things.
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We have nine children now half boys and half girls.