It’s better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt.
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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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
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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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Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.
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Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
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The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
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A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.
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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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My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.
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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
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Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
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Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
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The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
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I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
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