A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.
MARK TWAINIn 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.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
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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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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
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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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I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
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A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.
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To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
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If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
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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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If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.
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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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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
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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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A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
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Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
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Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
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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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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
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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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Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.
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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.
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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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History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
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The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man’s.
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Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
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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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