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.
MARK TWAINLoyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
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I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
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If 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.
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The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
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The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.
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Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
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Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.
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Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.
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Obscurity and a competence – that is the life that is best worth living.
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If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.
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I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
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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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A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.
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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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Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
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Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
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Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.
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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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I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
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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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All right, then, I’ll go to hell.
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To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
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The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
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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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Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
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