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.
MARK TWAINClassic – a book which people praise and don’t read.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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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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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
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Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
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If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.
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Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.
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Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
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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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Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
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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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In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
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Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
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Classic – a book which people praise and don’t read.
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The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.
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The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.
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