Mark Twain Quotes
“Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.”
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“The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.”
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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. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
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“All generalizations are false, including this one.”
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“It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.”
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“I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one”
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It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.”
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“The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop”
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“Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.”
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“A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation”
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“When angry, count to four. When very angry, swear.”
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“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.”
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“When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn”
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“Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often”
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“It is easier to stay out than get out.”
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“The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.”
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“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.”
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“To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.”
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“The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become”
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“When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain”
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“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.”
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“But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?”
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“Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does all the work”
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“Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen”
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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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“The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it”
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“Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary”
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“Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.”
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“Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be”
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“Buy land, they're not making it anymore”
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“When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.”
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“It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.”
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“The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.”
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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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“There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.”
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“We have the best government that money can buy.”
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“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear”
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“All right, then, I'll go to hell.”
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“When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself”
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