It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
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More Mark Twain Quotes
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Be good and you will be lonesome.
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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 human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
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Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.
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In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
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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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Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
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It’s better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt.
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The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
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Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
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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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Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
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The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
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My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.
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The secret to getting ahead is getting started.
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