Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
MARK TWAINIf 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.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.
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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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History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
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The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
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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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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
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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 secret to getting ahead is getting started.
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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’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
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Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.
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I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
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I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.
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The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
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The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man’s.
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