Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.
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More Mark Twain Quotes
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The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man’s.
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The secret to getting ahead is getting started.
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The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
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All right, then, I’ll go to hell.
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The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
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Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.
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If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be – a Christian.
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In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
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A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.
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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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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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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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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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I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.
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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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