It’s better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt.
MARK TWAINI 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.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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Classic – a book which people praise and don’t read.
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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
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I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
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Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
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Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.
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Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
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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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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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The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
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I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!
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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
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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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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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When angry, count four. When very angry, swear.
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