Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
MARK TWAINObscurity and a competence – that is the life that is best worth living.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
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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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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
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The secret to getting ahead is getting started.
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Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
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Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.
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The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
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There’s one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he’s crooked.
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Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
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Obscurity and a competence – that is the life that is best worth living.
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My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.
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