When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
MARK TWAINIt takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.
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A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
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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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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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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
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Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
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The secret to getting ahead is getting started.
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Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
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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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Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.
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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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I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
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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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