It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
MARK TWAINOf all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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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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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
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I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
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I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
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The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
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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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Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
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It’s better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt.
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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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Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
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The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.
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Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
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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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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
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Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.
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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
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Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
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Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
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Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
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Classic – a book which people praise and don’t read.
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The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
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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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Obscurity and a competence – that is the life that is best worth living.
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Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.
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There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
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