Mark Twain quotes - page 4

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. (Mark Twain)
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
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Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.
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It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
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It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
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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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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
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The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
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Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
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Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. (Mark Twain)
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
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I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
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Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.
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Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
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Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
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Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.
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A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
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Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
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Loyalty to petrified opinion never broke a chain or freed a human soul. (Mark Twain)
Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
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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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Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.
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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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