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Mark Twain

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If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.
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I'm really totally convinced, and I can't predict the time frame, but someday these cartoonists, lik...
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Mark Twain said, 'The right word is to the nearly right word as lightning is to the lightning bu...
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The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
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A wise man writes down what he thinks, a stupid man forgets what he thinks, a complete idiot punishe...
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I got to know Mark during the campaign, and he is a good guy. I think he has a grasp of the issue, a...
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I'm shocked and incredibly disappointed; they're arrogant and drunk with power. If I'm elected, I wo...
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If he thinks that we will go back to negotiate with him over (the U.S.) package, he's mistaken.
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Same first name as a president and an obscure comic book character. Half-Jewish. Excellent grammar. ...
BECKY ALBERTALLI
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What we came up with is a dress code that even Mark Cuban could comply with - if he wanted to.
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If they can't agree on it, the commissioners have a right to pull it out of there and do whatever we...
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I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is n...
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I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined...
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I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined t...
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Mark Twain cannot be defined.
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I agreed with everything he was saying when he ran for president. I was listening to what he said. I...
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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
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When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were w...
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When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were wh...
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All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought,...
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I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
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"A silly little boy who ...
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We cannot ask a man what he will do, and if we should, and he should answer us, we should despise hi...
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Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be g...
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His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the wh...
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If you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may say with confidence that he is a ...
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Do not believe that you alone can be right.
The man who thinks that,
The man who maintains...
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We all know the saying that if you give a man a fish you feed him for a day, but if you teach him ho...
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We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.
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To paraphrase Mark Twain, our demise is greatly exaggerated.
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We are going to play him right away. With some freshman, you throw them in and pull them out. Someti...
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Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain...
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The right of free speech cannot be parceled out based on whether we want to hear what the speaker ha...
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He cooperated with our request to come out and SWAT was there and we took him into custody.
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We intend to present Mark as the man we know him to be, along with the relevant facts, to assist the...
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A man is literally what he thinks
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We have a right to life, not on it.
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If he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it.
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I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
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With Kyle, we felt like...if we got the right help for him, we could beat this.
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Up until today we couldn't come to an agreement of what we thought was fair. As a defense attorney, ...
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If you hold a cat by the tail, you learn things you can't learn any other way.--Mark Twain
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When we don't come out with energy, we get our butts kicked. If we're going to be a good team, we ca...
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If he wins, it's a whole new ball game. It's a step up and if we can get in that position, I guarant...
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If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.
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Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.
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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
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I do not like work even when someone else does it.
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Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.
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No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.
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When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.
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In statesmanship get the formalities right, never mind about the moralities.
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The lack of money is the root of all evils.
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His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.
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A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.
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Satan hasn't a single salaried helper; the Opposition employ a million.
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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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Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
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It was the schoolboy who said, Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
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Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.
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I've never let my school interfere with my education.
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).
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MARK TWAIN
If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the r...
MARK TWAIN
The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a...
MARK TWAIN
Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its...
MARK TWAIN
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
MARK TWAIN
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the reall...
MARK TWAIN
If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.
MARK TWAIN
′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.
MARK TWAIN
Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
MARK TWAIN
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
MARK TWAIN
The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
MARK TWAIN
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Trut...
MARK TWAIN
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
MARK TWAIN
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
MARK TWAIN
All right, then, I'll go to hell.
MARK TWAIN
The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.
MARK TWAIN
Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
MARK TWAIN
If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be—a Christian.
MARK TWAIN
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
MARK TWAIN
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it ...
MARK TWAIN
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
MARK TWAIN
Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
MARK TWAIN
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
MARK TWAIN
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.
MARK TWAIN
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
MARK TWAIN