The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
MARK TWAINTruth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
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You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
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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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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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Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
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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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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves 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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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
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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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The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man’s.
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There’s one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he’s crooked.
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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
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