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A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.

Mark Twain

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
MARK TWAIN

Born Dead Death Fear Inconvenience Inspirational Suffering
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.
MARK TWAIN

Absorb Book Goodness Mystery Room Skin Wisdom
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.
MARK TWAIN

Animal Dog Fellow Grace Speak
There’s one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he’s crooked.
MARK TWAIN

Finding Honesty Man
Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.
MARK TWAIN

Age Birthday Indicate One Liner Smile Wrinkle
There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.
MARK TWAIN

Comedy Drama Impossible Interesting Life Tragedy
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
MARK TWAIN

Die Inspirational Live Sorry
Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
MARK TWAIN

Allow Broken Heart Option Priorities Self Love Yourself
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
MARK TWAIN

Born Inspirational Life Positive Reason Success Wisdom
There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man’s notion that he is less savage than the other savages.
MARK TWAIN

Humour Man Savage World
Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
MARK TWAIN

Dog Favor Heaven Merit Stay
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
MARK TWAIN

Adsence Courage Fear Master Resistance
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.
MARK TWAIN

Bite Dod Funny Human Nature Loyalty Man
It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
MARK TWAIN

Brave Courage Dog Flight Inspirational
Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.
MARK TWAIN

Change Politics Reason
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
MARK TWAIN

History One Liner Past Repeat Rhyme

A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.

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