It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
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More Mark Twain Quotes
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Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
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Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
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Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
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Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
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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 half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.
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To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
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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 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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Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
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Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
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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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Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
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In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
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April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.
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Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
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All right, then, I’ll go to hell.
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The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
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The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
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Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.
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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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If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.
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I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
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