It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
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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The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
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Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
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Obscurity and a competence – that is the life that is best worth living.
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A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.
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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
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There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
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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’s better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt.
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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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There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man’s notion that he is less savage than the other savages.
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It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
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The secret to getting ahead is getting started.
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Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.
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