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 TWAINThe trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.
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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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Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.
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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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My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.
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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
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When angry, count four. When very angry, swear.
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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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It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
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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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If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be – a Christian.
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Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
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In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
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I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
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