The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
MARK TWAINEducation: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.
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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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Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
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I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.
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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
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Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.
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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
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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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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
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Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.
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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
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The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
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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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If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
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If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be – a Christian.
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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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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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Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.
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Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.
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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.
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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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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
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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 allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
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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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Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
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