It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
MARK TWAIN
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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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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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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Be good and you will be lonesome.
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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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A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
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The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
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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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When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
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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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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
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My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.
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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
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