It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.
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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I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
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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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A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.
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The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
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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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Obscurity and a competence – that is the life that is best worth living.
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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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The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
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It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
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Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
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Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
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Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.
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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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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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