Quotes by Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

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But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down to a certain p — Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
I persuaded him to throw the dirk away and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of — Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Intellectual 'work' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward. The poorest paid archit — Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns. — Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. — Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
But that is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel. — Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
If I had the remaking of man, he wouldn't have any conscience. It is one of the most disagreeable things connected with — Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real t — Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
How empty is theory in the presence of fact! — Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court