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Mark Twain Quote - It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

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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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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
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The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man’s.
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Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.
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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
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Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
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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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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
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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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Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
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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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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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You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
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Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.
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I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.
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Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.
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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.
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History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
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The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
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Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
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There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
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Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
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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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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
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What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.
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If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.
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