April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.
MARK TWAINA lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.
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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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Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
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Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
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In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
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Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
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When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
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Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.
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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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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
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A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.
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I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
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I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.
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Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
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Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
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Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
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There’s one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he’s crooked.
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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
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The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man’s.
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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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The secret to getting ahead is getting started.
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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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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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