There’s one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he’s crooked.
MARK TWAINMan is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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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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If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
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The secret to getting ahead is getting started.
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I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.
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It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
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The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
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I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
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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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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
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I haven’t any right to criticize books, and I don’t do it except when I hate them.
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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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If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.
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A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.
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Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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