It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
MARK TWAINNever argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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Be good and you will be lonesome.
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A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
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Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
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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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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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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
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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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You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
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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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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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All right, then, I’ll go to hell.
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A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.
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Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
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