Mark Twain quotes - page 6

It is better to be a young June Bug than an old Bird of Paradise. (Mark Twain)
I've seen many troubles in my time, only half of which ever came true.
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Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
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The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.
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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
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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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I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me he can't be any worse.
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Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
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There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.
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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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There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages. (Mark Twain)
Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.
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The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
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An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.
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Education that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
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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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There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesome returns of conjectures out of such trifling investment of fact.
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Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.
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The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
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I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.
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Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul. (Mark Twain)
Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
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When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
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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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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
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