Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
MARK TWAINIt is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
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The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
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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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In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
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Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.
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I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
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Obscurity and a competence – that is the life that is best worth living.
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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
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Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.
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I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
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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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If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be – a Christian.
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History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
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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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Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
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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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All right, then, I’ll go to hell.
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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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A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.
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Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.
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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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The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.
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The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
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