If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.
MARK TWAINDon’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.
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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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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
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Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
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In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
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Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
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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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The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.
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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
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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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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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If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
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The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.
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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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