The secret to getting ahead is getting started.
MARK TWAINThere’s one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he’s crooked.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
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Classic – a book which people praise and don’t 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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If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.
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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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If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be – a Christian.
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Be good and you will be lonesome.
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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
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It’s better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt.
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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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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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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
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I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
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Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.
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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 have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
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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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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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When angry, count four. When very angry, swear.
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The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
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A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.
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The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
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