It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
MARK TWAINPoliticians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
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What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.
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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
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There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
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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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Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
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I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
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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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It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
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Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
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The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
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Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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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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A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.
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Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
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Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
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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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Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
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A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.
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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
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Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
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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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If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be – a Christian.
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