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

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. ~ A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain How empty is theory in presence of fact! ~ A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain Reflect: we are well equipped, well fortified, we number 54. Fifty-four what? Men? No, MINDS--the capablest in the world; a force against which mere animal might may no more hope to prevail than may the idle waves of the sea hope to prevail against the granite barriers of England. ~ A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain Any mummery will cure if the patient's faith is strong in it. ~ A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain Old habit of mind is one of the toughest things to get away from in the world. It transmits itself like physical form and feature. ~ A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain "You see my kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous." ~ A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain You see, he was going for the Holy Grail. The boys all took a flier at the Holy Grail now and then. It was a several years' cruise. They always put in the long absence snooping around, in the most conscientious way, though none of them had any idea where the Holy Grail really was, and I don't think any of them actually expected to find it, or would have known what to do with it if he had run across it. ~ A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain A man must not hold himself aloof from the things which his friends and his community have at heart if he would be liked. ~ A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine. ~ A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is a finer. ~ A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

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