Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
MARK TWAINPoliticians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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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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I haven’t any right to criticize books, and I don’t do it except when I hate them.
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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
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Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
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If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be – a Christian.
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Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
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Obscurity and a competence – that is the life that is best worth living.
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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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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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I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
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Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
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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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A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
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All right, then, I’ll go to hell.
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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
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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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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
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Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
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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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The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
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Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
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The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.
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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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