Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.
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More Mark Twain Quotes
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Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.
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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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I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!
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The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
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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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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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A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
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The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
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The secret to getting ahead is getting started.
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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
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The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
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When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
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Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
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Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.
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My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.
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The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man’s.
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Obscurity and a competence – that is the life that is best worth living.
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April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.
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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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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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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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In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
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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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