Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
MARK TWAINEducation: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
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There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
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Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.
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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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I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
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I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
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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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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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In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
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Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.
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If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.
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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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A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
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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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