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 TWAINTo get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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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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Classic – a book which people praise and don’t read.
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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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It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
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If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
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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 allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
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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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Obscurity and a competence – that is the life that is best worth living.
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If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.
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Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.
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Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.
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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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Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.
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