Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
MARK TWAINBooks are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.
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Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
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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.
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The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
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What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.
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Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.
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The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
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Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.
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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
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In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
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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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The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.
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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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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
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If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.
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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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I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
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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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Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
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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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The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
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Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.
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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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The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man’s.
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The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.
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