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.
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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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
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There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
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I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
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When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
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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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Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
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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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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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Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
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Classic – a book which people praise and don’t read.
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To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
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I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!
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Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.
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Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
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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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