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Mark Twain great quotes, a collection of the author’s best quotes and aphorisms on every aspects of life seen through his marvellous and witty sense of humor.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made school boards.<\/span>
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Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.<\/span>
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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.<\/span>
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A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape. <\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

The only reason why God created man is because he was disappointed with the monkey. <\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar. <\/span>
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A crowded police docket is the surest of all signs that trade is brisk and money plenty. <\/span>
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Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment. <\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle. <\/span>
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Always acknowledge a fault frankly. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you opportunity to commit more. <\/span>
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There is no such thing as \u201dthe Queen\u2019s English.\u201d The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

Life is short. Break the rules. Forgive quickly. Kiss slowly. Love Truly. Laugh uncontrollably. Never regret anything that makes you smile.<\/span>
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The two most important days of your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

Give every day a chance to become the most beautiful day in your life.<\/span>
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The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come not of book teaching but of experience.<\/span>
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A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn no other way.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is I can\u2019t find anybody who can tell me what they want.<\/span>
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Action speaks louder than words, but not nearly as often.<\/span>
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The fear of death follows from the fear of life. The man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

A classic: something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. <\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

Put all your eggs in the one basket and – Watch That Basket. <\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man\u2019s character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours. <\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many times, and they always embarrass me – I always feel that they have not said enough. <\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress. <\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull. <\/span>
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Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to. <\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied. <\/span>
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Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. <\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. <\/span>
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Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. <\/span>
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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. <\/span>
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The very ink in which history is written is merely fluid prejudice. <\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

True irreverence is disrespect for another man\u2019s god. <\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. <\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child\u2019s loss of a doll and a king\u2019s loss of a crown are events of the same size. <\/span>
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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins. <\/span>
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By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man\u2019s, I mean. <\/span>
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The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little. <\/span>
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India has 2,000,000 gods, and worships them all. In religion other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire. <\/span>
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We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground. <\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy. <\/span>
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The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.<\/span>
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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.<\/span>
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It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races.<\/span>
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There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist. <\/span>
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My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water. <\/span>
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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. <\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

When angry, count four; when very angry, swear. <\/span>
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I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the “lower animals” (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.<\/span>
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What’s the use you learning to do right, when it’s troublesome to do right and ain’t no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.<\/span>
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Government is merely a servant \u2013 merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn\u2019t. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.<\/span>
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All kings is mostly rapscallions.<\/span>
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To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct.<\/span>
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In order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.<\/span>
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Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

Do not put off till tomorrow what can be put off till day-after-tomorrow just as well.<\/span>
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Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.<\/span>
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Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.<\/span>
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Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain’t so.<\/span>
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The elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.<\/span>
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The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it.<\/span>
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Golf is a good walk spoiled.<\/span>
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The holy passion of friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring in nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.<\/span>
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Its name is Public Opinion. It is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.<\/span>
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The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.<\/span>
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Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.<\/span>
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The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.<\/span>
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After a few months\u2019 acquaintance with European \u201ccoffee,\u201d one\u2019s mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage of home, with its clotted layer of yellow cream on top of it, is not a mere dream after all, and a thing which never existed.<\/span>
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have someone to divide it with.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

The lack of money is the root of all evil.<\/span>
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It is better to have old second-hand diamonds than none at all.<\/span>
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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.<\/span>
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There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.<\/span>
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When a humorist ventures upon the grave concerns of life he must do his job better than another man or he works harm to his cause. <\/span>
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What a man wants with religion in these breadless times, surpasses my comprehension. <\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows – it must grow; nothing can prevent it.<\/span>
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I always did hate for anyone to know what my plans or hopes or prospects were – for, if I kept people in ignorance in these matters, no one could be disappointed but myself, if they were not realized.<\/span>
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Men are easily dealt with – but when you get the women started, you are in for it, you know.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

We chase phantoms half the days of our lives. It is well if we learn wisdom even then, and save the other half. <\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

Who would find out that I am a natural fool if I kept always cool and never let nature come to the surface? Nobody.<\/span>
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Ah, well, I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God’s fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect. <\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

I would rather have my ignorance than another man’s knowledge, because I have got so much more of it. <\/span>
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My interest in my work dies a sudden and violent death when the work is done. <\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

I am as prompt as a clock, if I only know the day a thing is wanted – otherwise I am a natural procrastinaturalist.<\/span>
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Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.<\/span>
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Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.<\/span>
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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.<\/span>
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Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat.<\/span>
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Patriotism is merely a religion – love of country, worship of country, devotion to the country’s flag and honor and welfare.<\/span>
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Low comedies are written for the drawing-room, the kitchen and the stable, and if you cut out the kitchen and the stable the drawing-room can’t support the play by itself. <\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

In truth I care little about any party’s politics – the man behind it is the important thing.<\/span>
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I never made a success of a lecture delivered in a church yet. People are afraid to laugh in a church. They can’t be made to do it in any possible way.<\/span>
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I was afraid of a united Church; it makes a mighty power, the mightiest conceivable, and then when it by and by gets into selfish hands, as it is always bound to do, it means death to human liberty and paralysis to human thought.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.<\/span>
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In my experience, previously counted chickens never do hatch.<\/span>
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God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention.<\/span>
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Drag your thoughts away from your troubles – by the ears, by the heels, or any other way, so you manage it.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

Lord, what an organ is human speech when it is played by a master!<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

Unexpected money is a delight. The same sum is a bitterness when you expected more.<\/span>
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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.<\/span>
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There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.<\/span>
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I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I\u2019m not feeling so well myself.<\/span>
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I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough. <\/span>
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There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a Dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And You are but a Thought – a vagrant Thought, a useless Thought, a homeless Thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

To create man was a fine and original idea; but to add the sheep was a tautology. <\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter\u2014’tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning. <\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations and resentments flit away and a sunny spirit takes their place. <\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. <\/span>
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Heaven for climate, Hell for society.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother. <\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. <\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt. <\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

H’aint we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain’t that a big enough majority in any town? <\/span>
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Is not this insanity plea becoming rather common? Is it not so common that the reader confidently expects to see it offered in every criminal case that comes before the courts?… Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity.<\/span>
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Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

You tell me whar a man gits his corn pone, en I’ll tell you what his ‘pinions is. <\/span>
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Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any. <\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

Virtue never has been as respectable as money. <\/span>
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Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.<\/span>
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The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

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There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy’s life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.<\/span>
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If you can’t get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.<\/span>
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The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there’s any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

All say, How hard it is that we have to die – a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

There is nothing so annoying as a good example!!<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won’t sit upon a cold stove lid, either.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

Familiarity breeds contempt; and children.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people but if we tried to shut up the insane we would run out of building materials.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they’re a mighty ornery lot. It’s the way they’re raised.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain’t so.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

Be good and you will be lonely.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: The one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

I find that principles have no real force except when one is well fed.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

There’s always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

I don’t know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist’s custom.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

I have not a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the “blessing” of idleness and won for us the “curse” of labor.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood is what you were intended for.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

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