It’s better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt.
MARK TWAINI’ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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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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I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
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To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
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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.
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In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
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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.
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April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.
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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
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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 easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
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The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.
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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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Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.
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