Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
MARK TWAINMy books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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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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Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
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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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I haven’t any right to criticize books, and I don’t do it except when I hate them.
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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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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.
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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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Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.
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You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
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Obscurity and a competence – that is the life that is best worth living.
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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
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I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.
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Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
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