Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
MARK TWAINPatriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
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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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Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
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The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
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Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
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To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
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My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.
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Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
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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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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
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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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Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
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Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
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Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
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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 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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