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 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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I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
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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.
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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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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
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There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
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Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.
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It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
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Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
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My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.
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All right, then, I’ll go to hell.
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There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man’s notion that he is less savage than the other savages.
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Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.
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The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
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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 worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.
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