Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
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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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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Obscurity and a competence – that is the life that is best worth living.
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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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April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.
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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
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Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
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Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
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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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When angry, count four. When very angry, swear.
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If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.
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A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.
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The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man’s.
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
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