Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
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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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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The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.
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The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
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There’s one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he’s crooked.
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I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.
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Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.
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If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.
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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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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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Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
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Be good and you will be lonesome.
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History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
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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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Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
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