Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.
MARK TWAINGet your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
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If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be – a Christian.
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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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It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.
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The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man’s.
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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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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
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A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.
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The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.
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The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.
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The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
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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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It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
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Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
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Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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Classic – a book which people praise and don’t read.
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Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
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The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
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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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I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
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Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
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A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
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