There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man’s notion that he is less savage than the other savages.
MARK TWAINGet your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
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Be good and you will be lonesome.
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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
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The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
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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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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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A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.
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Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.
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Obscurity and a competence – that is the life that is best worth living.
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What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.
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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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I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!
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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
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