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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it,

When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Mark Twain
Country, Party, Teaching

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

Mark Twain
Sweet, Children, Teaching
Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.7, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Figures don't lie, but liars figure.

Mark Twain
Liars, Lying, Teaching

It is noble to teach oneself; it is still nobler to teach others.

Mark Twain
Teaching, Noble, Stills
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.467, Courier Corporation

When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.

Mark Twain
Education, Teacher, Teaching
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.390, Courier Corporation

The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.

Mark Twain
Book, Teaching, Lessons
Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.162, Chartwell

Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.

Mark Twain
Teaching, Trying, Underwater

there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on earth who writes or speaks commits it every day and not merely once or twice but every time he open his mouth… there is nothing of our own in it except some slight change born of our temperament, character, environment, teachings and associations

Mark Twain
Teaching, Writing, Character

You have heretofore found out, by my teachings, that man is a fool; you are now aware that woman is a damned fool.

Mark Twain
Teaching, Men, Fool
Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.3099, GENERAL PRESS

He could charm an audience an hour on a stretch without ever getting rid of an idea.

Mark Twain
Teaching, Ideas, Personality
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.452, Courier Corporation

There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

Mark Twain
Teaching, Assessment, Personality
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) ch. 1

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

Mark Twain
Education, Running, Teaching
A Curious Dream "Facts Concerning the Recent Resignation" (1872)

When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

Mark Twain
Kings, Teaching, Book
Mark Twain (2015). “The Prince and the Pauper”, p.19, Xist Publishing

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