A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
MARK TWAINWrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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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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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
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All right, then, I’ll go to hell.
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The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
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Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.
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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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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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Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
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You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
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When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
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I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
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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.
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If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.
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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.
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