The secret to getting ahead is getting started.
MARK TWAINAnger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
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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 haven’t any right to criticize books, and I don’t do it except when I hate them.
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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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Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
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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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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
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A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.
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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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Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.
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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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Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
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