Mere may refer to:
- Mere (lake), a lake that is broad in relation to its depth
- Mere (weapon), a Māori war club
- Mere (album), an album by Norwegian rock band deLillos
- Ain-Ervin Mere (1903–1969), Estonian war criminal
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Famous quotes containing the word mere:
“That is mere sentimentality that lies abed by day and thinks itself white, far from the tan and callus of experience.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“After a few months’ acquaintance with European “coffee,” one’s mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage of home, with its clotted layer of yellow cream on top of it, is not a mere dream after all, and a thing which never existed.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“The English did not come to America from a mere love of adventure, nor to truck with or convert the savages, nor to hold offices under the crown, as the French to a great extent did, but to live in earnest and with freedom.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)