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.
MARK TWAINOut of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
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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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I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
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If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.
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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
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Keep 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.
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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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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
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There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.
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The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man’s.
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The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.
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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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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
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Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
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The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
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