Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
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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I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
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Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
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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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The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
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Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
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If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
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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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The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
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There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man’s notion that he is less savage than the other savages.
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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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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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