Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
MARK TWAINGet your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
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April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.
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It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
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A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.
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When angry, count four. When very angry, swear.
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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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If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.
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Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
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You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
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It’s better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt.
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In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
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Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
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In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
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