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.
MARK TWAINNever argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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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 didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
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Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
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If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.
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To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
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Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.
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There’s one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he’s crooked.
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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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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
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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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In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
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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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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.
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You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
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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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