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.
MARK TWAINThe more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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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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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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Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
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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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Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
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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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It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.
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Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.
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A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.
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All right, then, I’ll go to hell.
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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
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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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If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.
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The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.
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In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
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