Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.
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 have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
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Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
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There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.
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There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
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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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Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
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When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
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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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Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
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My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.
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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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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
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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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Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.
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In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
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