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.
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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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.
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Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
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It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
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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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History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
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The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
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Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
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If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be – a Christian.
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I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
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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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My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.
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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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