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.
MARK TWAINI haven’t any right to criticize books, and I don’t do it except when I hate them.
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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A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.
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Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
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Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
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April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.
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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 human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
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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 stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
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Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.
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Classic – a book which people praise and don’t read.
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Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.
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I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.
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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
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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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