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.
MARK TWAINWhen you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
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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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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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The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
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I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.
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In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
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When angry, count four. When very angry, swear.
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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
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To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
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History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
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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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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
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