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.
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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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
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The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.
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Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
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In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
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I haven’t any right to criticize books, and I don’t do it except when I hate them.
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April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.
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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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Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
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Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
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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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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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The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
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I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
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