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 TWAINIf Christ were here there is one thing he would not be – a Christian.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
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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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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
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Be good and you will be lonesome.
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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
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If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be – a Christian.
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Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
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The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
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Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
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It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
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Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
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You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
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When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
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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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