It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
MARK TWAINWorrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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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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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
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The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
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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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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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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
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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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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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What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.
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A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.
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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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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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Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
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It 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.
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
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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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Obscurity and a competence – that is the life that is best worth living.
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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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If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
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Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.
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Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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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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There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
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Be good and you will be lonesome.
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To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
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