Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
MARK TWAINThe right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of 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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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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If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.
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The secret to getting ahead is getting started.
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Classic – a book which people praise and don’t read.
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A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
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Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
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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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Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.
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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
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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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I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
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It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
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The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.
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