Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
MARK TWAINIt is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
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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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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
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The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
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Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
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The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
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Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
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I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
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It’s better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt.
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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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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
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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 best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
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When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
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Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.
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