In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
MARK TWAINMan is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!
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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
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I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
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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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A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.
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History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
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There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man’s notion that he is less savage than the other savages.
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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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Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
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The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.
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The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
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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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A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.
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