Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
MARK TWAINIt is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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When angry, count four. When very angry, swear.
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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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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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Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
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Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
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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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All right, then, I’ll go to hell.
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A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.
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Obscurity and a competence – that is the life that is best worth living.
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Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
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Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
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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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The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
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