It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
MARK TWAINA banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
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Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
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Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.
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A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.
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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
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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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Be good and you will be lonesome.
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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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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
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It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
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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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In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
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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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