• The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.

  Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) 1835-1910
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. intellectual
2. superiority
3. inferiority
4. cannot
5. moral

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The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot. by : Mark Twain

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