Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
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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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
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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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A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.
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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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The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.
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You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
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Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
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If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
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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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Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
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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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Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
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My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.
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Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.
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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
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Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
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Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.
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The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
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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 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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Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
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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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Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
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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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The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man’s.
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
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