It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
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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I haven’t any right to criticize books, and I don’t do it except when I hate them.
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When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
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Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
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Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
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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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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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A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.
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Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
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Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
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I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.
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I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
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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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Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
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I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
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