It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
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 human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
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If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.
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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
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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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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
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A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.
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All right, then, I’ll go to hell.
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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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The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man’s.
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If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.
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I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
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History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
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Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.
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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
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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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Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
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I haven’t any right to criticize books, and I don’t do it except when I hate them.
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Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
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I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
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Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
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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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Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.
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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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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
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