The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.
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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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
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When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
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In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
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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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I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.
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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
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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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It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
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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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Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.
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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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Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
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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 two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
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Classic – a book which people praise and don’t read.
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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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To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
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Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
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What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.
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There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
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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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Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
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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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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
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