Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
MARK TWAINTruth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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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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The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.
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Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
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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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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
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In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
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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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It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
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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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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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Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
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I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!
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If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.
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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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Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
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