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Directory of Mark Twain's maxims, quotations, and various opinions:

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RIGHTS

There isn't a Parallel of Latitude but thinks it would have been the Equator if it had had its rights.
- "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar"

AI image created by Barbara Schmidt

Twain graphic
Illustration by Peter Newell from COSMOPOLITAN
August 1893

With us no individual is born with a right to look down upon his neighbor and hold him in contempt.
- "After Dinner Speech," 4 July, 1873, London, England

Man has not a single right which is the product of anything but might. Not a single right is indestructible: a new might can at any time abolish it, hence, man possesses not a single permanent right.
- Mark Twain's Notebook


Parallel of latitude postcard
Postcard from the
Dave Thomson collection

 

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