Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.
MARK TWAINIn 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.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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Obscurity and a competence – that is the life that is best worth living.
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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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Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.
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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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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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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
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A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.
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The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.
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The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
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There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
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Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
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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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Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
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