Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
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’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.
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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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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.
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Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.
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It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
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If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
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If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be – a Christian.
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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 must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!
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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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The secret to getting ahead is getting started.
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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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The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
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