Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.
MARK TWAINPatriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
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The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
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In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
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It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.
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What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.
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The secret to getting ahead is getting started.
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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
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Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
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Be good and you will be lonesome.
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Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
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Classic – a book which people praise and don’t read.
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A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
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