I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
MARK TWAINEducation: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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It’s better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt.
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The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
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There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
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The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man’s.
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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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I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.
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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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A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.
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Classic – a book which people praise and don’t read.
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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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Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
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I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
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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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