Mark Twain Quotes

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
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Effect Let Go Pause Time
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
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Cheer Happiness Praise Self Love Yourself
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.
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Fiction Possible Stick StrAngry Truth
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
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Appreciation Happiness Joy One Liner Value
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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Beginning Change Hate Man Patriotism Success
The secret to getting ahead is getting started.
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Hustle Inspirational One Liner Positive Secret Work Hard
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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Animal Cruel Man Pain Pleasure
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
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History One Liner Past Repeat Rhyme
If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.
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Information Media Newspaper
The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
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Children Humour Information
Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.
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Animal Blush Funny Man One Liner
Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
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Dog Favor Heaven Merit Stay
Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
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Cease Exist Illusion Life Live
Be good and you will be lonesome.
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Alone Goodness Life Loneliness One Liner Reality
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
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Brain Fish Heart Love Romance
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
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Majority Reform Time Wisdom Yourself
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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Eat Fight Food Life Secret Success
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
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Country Deserve Government Help Patriotism Support
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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Born Dead Death Fear Inconvenience Inspirational Suffering
When angry, count four. When very angry, swear.
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Advice Angry One Liner Patience Swear
I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
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Happen Humour Life Live Terrible
Classic – a book which people praise and don’t read.
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Book Praise Read
Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.
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Debt One Liner Owe Pay Worry
I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
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Humour Letter Time Writing
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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Enemy Friendship Heart Togetherness Work
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.
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Give Up Human Nature Humour Smoking Time World
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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Decision Humour Mind

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