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.
MARK TWAINTo get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
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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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A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.
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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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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
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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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Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.
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There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
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When angry, count four. When very angry, swear.
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Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.
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In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
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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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Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.
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Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
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