If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.
MARK TWAINIt’s better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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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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There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man’s notion that he is less savage than the other savages.
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History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
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Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
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Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
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Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
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The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
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Classic – a book which people praise and don’t read.
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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
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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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Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
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My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.
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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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It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
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Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
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The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
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Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
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Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.
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Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.
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The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
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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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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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