Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
MARK TWAINI must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!
More Mark Twain Quotes
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
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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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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
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Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
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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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In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
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Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.
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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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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
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Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
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If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
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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 fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
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Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.
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A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
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