It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
MARK TWAINNever allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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I haven’t any right to criticize books, and I don’t do it except when I hate them.
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My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.
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It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
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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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Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
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Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.
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Classic – a book which people praise and don’t read.
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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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The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.
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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
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When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
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A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.
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Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
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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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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
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When angry, count four. When very angry, swear.
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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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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
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The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man’s.
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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
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Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
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To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
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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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I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
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