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Mark Twain Quotes
Who is Mark Twain?
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity - another man's I mean.
Clothes make the man. Nake people have little or no influence on society.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.
Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you too, can become great.
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
My mother had a great deal of trouble with my, but I think she enjoyed it.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
Suppose you were and idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer someone else up.
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on it's shoes.
A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.
I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confines themselves to facts.
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