I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
MARK TWAINOf 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.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man’s.
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Be good and you will be lonesome.
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The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
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A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
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The secret to getting ahead is getting started.
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It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
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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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All right, then, I’ll go to hell.
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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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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
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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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Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
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