"His ignorance covers the world like a..." - Quote by Mark Twain
His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.
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“History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably.”
“When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.”
“July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so”
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“I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance.”
“The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.”
“People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.”
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“Oh these mathematicians make me tired! When you ask them to work out a sum they take a piece of paper, cover it with rows of A's, B's, and X's and Y's ... scatter a mess of flyspecks over them, and then give you an answer that's all wrong!”
“I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run; because a half-massacred Indian may recover, but if you educate him and wash him, it is bound to finish him some time or other.”
“I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.”