Mark Twain Quotes

Part Of The Secret Of Success In Life Is To Eat What You Like And Let The Food Fight It Out Inside.

I Have Never Let My Schooling Interfere With My Education.

Travel Is Fatal To Prejudice, Bigotry, And Narrow-Mindedness, And Many Of Our People Need It Sorely On These Accounts. Broad, Wholesome, Charitable Views Of Men And Things Cannot Be Acquired By Vegetating In One Little Corner Of The Earth All One’s Lifetime.

- Mark Twain

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The First Half Of Life Consists Of The Capacity To Enjoy Without The The Chance; The Last Half Consists Of The Chance Without The Capacity.

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The Worst Loneliness Is Not To Be Comfortable With Yourself.

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I Was Seldom Able To See An Opportunity Until It Had Ceased To Be One.

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Suppose You Were An Idiot And Suppose You Were A Member Of Congress. But I Repeat Myself.

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When In Doubt, Tell The Truth.

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There Is Something Fascinating About Science. One Gets Such Wholesale Returns Of Conjecture Out Of Such A Trifling Investment Of Fact.

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We Have A Criminal Jury System Which Is Superior To Any In The World; And Its Efficiency Is Only Marred By The Difficulty Of Finding Twelve Men Every Day Who Don’t Know Anything And Can’t Read.

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Sane And Intelligent Human Beings Are Like All Other Human Beings, And Carefully And Cautiously And Diligently Conceal Their Private Real Opinions From The World And Give Out Fictitious Ones In Their Stead For General Consumption.

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Just The Omission Of Jane Austen’s Books Alone Would Make A Fairly Good Library Out Of A Library That Hadn’t A Book In It.

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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 Of Them.

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It Could Probably Be Shown By Facts And Figures That There Is No Distinctly American Criminal Class Except Congress.

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The Rule Is Perfect: In All Matters Of Opinion Our Adversaries Are Insane.

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Many A Small Thing Has Been Made Large By The Right Kind Of Advertising.

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I Am Not One Of Those Who In Expressing Opinions Confine Themselves To Facts.

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We Have Not The Reverent Feeling For The Rainbow That A Savage Has, Because We Know How It Is Made. We Have Lost As Much As We Gained By Prying Into That Matter.

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The Human Race Has One Really Effective Weapon, And That Is Laughter.

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Our Opinions Do Not Really Blossom Into Fruition Until We Have Expressed Them To Someone Else.

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Truth Is More Of A Stranger Than Fiction.

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Always Acknowledge A Fault. This Will Throw Those In Authority Off Their Guard And Give You An Opportunity To Commit More.

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You Cannot Depend On Your Eyes When Your Imagination Is Out Of Focus.

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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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Habit Is Habit And Not To Be Flung Out Of The Window By Any Man, But Coaxed Downstairs A Step At A Time.

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Don’t Go Around Saying The World Owes You A Living. The World Owes You Nothing. It Was Here First.

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I Have Never Taken Any Exercise Except Sleeping And Resting.

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Do Something Every Day That You Don’t Want To Do; This Is The Golden Rule For Acquiring The Habit Of Doing Your Duty Without Pain.

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The Radical Of One Century Is The Conservative Of The Next. The Radical Invents The Views. When He Has Worn Them Out The Conservative Adopts Them.

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It Was Enough To Make A Body Ashamed Of The Human Race.

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Honesty Is The Best Policy – When There Is Money In It.

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Fiction Is Obliged To Stick To Possibilities. Truth Isn’t.

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Habit Is Habit, And Not To Be Flung Out The Window By Man, But Coaxed Downstairs, A Step At A Time.

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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 A Man.

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The Man Who Doesn’t Read Good Books Has No Advantage Over The Man Who Can’t Read Them.

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Man Is The Only Animal That Blushes. Or Needs To.

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Be Careful About Reading Health Books. You May Die Of A Misprint.

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Twenty Years From Now You Will Be More Disappointed By The Things That You Didn’t Do Than By The Ones You Did Do. So Throw Off The Bowlines. Catch The Trade Winds In Your Sails. Explore. Dream. Discover

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Whenever You Find That You Are On The Side Of The Majority, It Is Time To Pause And Reflect.

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My Mother Had A Great Deal Of Trouble With Me, But I Think She Enjoyed It.

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Men Write Many Fine And Plausible Arguments In Support Of Monarchy, But The Fact Remains That Where Every Man Has A Voice, Brutal Laws Are Impossible.

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Training Is Everything. The Peach Was Once A Bitter Almond; Cauliflower Is Nothing But Cabbage With A College Education.

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Get Your Facts First, And Then You Can Distort Them As Much As You Please.

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A Lie Can Travel Halfway Around The World While The Truth Is Putting On Its Shoes.

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A Human Being Has A Natural Desire To Have More Of A Good Thing Than He Needs.

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The History Of Our Race, And Each Individual’s Experience, Are Sown Thick With Evidence That A Truth Is Not Hard To Kill And That A Lie Told Well Is Immortal.

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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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