Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
MARK TWAINHeaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
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Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.
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Be good and you will be lonesome.
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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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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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Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
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I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
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The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.
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Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
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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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My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.
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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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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
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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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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
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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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Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
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There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man’s notion that he is less savage than the other savages.
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The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
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