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Mark Twain


American
November 30, 1835
Author
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Prosperity is the best protector of principle.


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Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.


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Better a broken promise than none at all.


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Tags: Than Better None
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Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.


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He is now rising from affluence to poverty.


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Tags: He Now Poverty
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It is easier to stay out than get out.


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The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.


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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.


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The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.


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I can live for two months on a good compliment.


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Tags: Good Live I Can
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Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.


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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.


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Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.


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Tags: Only Look Itself
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Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.


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Tags: Man Right Control
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Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.


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Tags: Best Money Policy
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I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.


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Tags: Had See Able
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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.


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Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired.


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Tags: Work God Man
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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.


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It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.


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Tags: More Been Would
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Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.


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Tags: Truth Thing Most
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Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.


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In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.


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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 gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.


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Tags: Know Did Able
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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.


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Tags: Best Up Way
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The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.


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To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.


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If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.


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Tags: You Things Way
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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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It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.


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Tags: Good Up Still
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A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.


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Tags: Who Way Something
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Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.


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It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
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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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Tags: You Life World
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When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.


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Tags: You Your How
The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - 'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.
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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.
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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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As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.
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