Irreverence Type: paper Date: January 23, 2015 In: Civility and Rhetoric One of the most trying defects which I find in these — these — what shall I call them? for I will not apply injurious ... » Go
Mark Twain on Conscience Type: quote Date: January 01, 1885 In: Ethics So we poked along back home, and I warn’t feeling so brash as I was before, but kind of ornery, and humble, and to blame ... » Go
Mark Twain (as Huck Finn) on Doing Right Type: quote Date: December 01, 1884 In: Moral Subjectivism, Natural Law Then I thought a minute, and says to myself, hold on; s’pose you’d a done right and give Jim up, would you felt better than what ... » Go
Mark Twain (as Huck Finn) on Heaven Type: quote Date: January 01, 1884 In: Uncategorized Then she told me all about the bad place, and I said I wished I was there. She got mad then, but I didn’t mean no ... » Go
Mark Twain on Conscience Versus Cultural Norms Type: quote Date: January 01, 1884 In: Natural Law So I kneeled down. But the words wouldn’t come. Why wouldn’t they? It warn’t no use to try and hide it from Him. Nor from ... » Go
Mark Twain on Travel and Broad-Mindedness Type: quote Date: January 01, 1869 In: Uncategorized Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men ... » Go