It’s better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt.
MARK TWAIN
Classic – a book which people praise and don’t read.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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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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Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
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I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.
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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 right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
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Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.
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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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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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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
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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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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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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
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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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It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
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