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 TWAINApril 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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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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Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
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The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.
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In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
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Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
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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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Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
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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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Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
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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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Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
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Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
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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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Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.
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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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Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
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I haven’t any right to criticize books, and I don’t do it except when I hate them.
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I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.
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I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
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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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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
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Be good and you will be lonesome.
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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
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