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.
MARK TWAINThe easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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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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The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
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Obscurity and a competence – that is the life that is best worth living.
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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
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A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.
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Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
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Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
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Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
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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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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
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If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
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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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Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
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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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Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
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