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 TWAINWhenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.
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Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.
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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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The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.
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If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
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Obscurity and a competence – that is the life that is best worth living.
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Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.
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Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
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Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
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The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.
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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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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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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
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