Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
MARK TWAINKeep 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.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
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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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History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
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Obscurity and a competence – that is the life that is best worth living.
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The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
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I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
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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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Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
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Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.
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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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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
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The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
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The secret to getting ahead is getting started.
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The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
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