There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
MARK TWAINThe man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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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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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
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A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.
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I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.
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To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
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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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The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.
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All right, then, I’ll go to hell.
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Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.
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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
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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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I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
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I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
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Classic – a book which people praise and don’t read.
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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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Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.
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Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
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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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Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
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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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Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.
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In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
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The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man’s.
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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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Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.
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The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
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