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.
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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Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
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The secret to getting ahead is getting started.
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There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man’s notion that he is less savage than the other savages.
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Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
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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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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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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
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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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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
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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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Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
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The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
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Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
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You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
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To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
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The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
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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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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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All right, then, I’ll go to hell.
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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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History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
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Classic – a book which people praise and don’t read.
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When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
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