Mark Twain Quotes

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If we had less statemanship we could get along with fewer battleships.
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Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
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The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.
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When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.
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Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
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Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain.
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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
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My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right.
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There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.
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The rule is perfect in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
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Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.
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I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
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It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
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Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
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Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principle one was that they escaped teething.
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear.
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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.
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I did it partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.
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I never let schooling interfere with my education.
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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence - - And then success is sure.
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Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.
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When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.
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Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience of 4000 critics.
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Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
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A man is accepted into church for what he believes - - And turned out for what he knows.
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We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.
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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
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Be good and you will be lonesome.
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Some people get an eduction without going to college the rest get it after they get out.
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In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
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The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
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It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.
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Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
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