Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
MARK TWAINIf 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.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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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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Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
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To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
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Obscurity and a competence – that is the life that is best worth living.
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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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The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
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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 go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
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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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If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
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Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.
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The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
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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 takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.
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