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- I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
- Mark Twain
- I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
- Mark Twain
- If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
- Mark Twain
- If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
- Mark Twain
- In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.
- Mark Twain
- In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.
- Mark Twain
- In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
- Mark Twain
- It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.
- Mark Twain
- It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.
- Mark Twain
- It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
- Mark Twain
- It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
- Mark Twain
- It is easier to stay out than get out.
- Mark Twain
- It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
- Mark Twain
- It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
- Mark Twain
- Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.
- Mark Twain
- Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
- Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
- Mark Twain
- Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
- Mark Twain
- Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible.
- Mark Twain
- Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.
- Mark Twain
- My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
- Mark Twain
- Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
- Mark Twain
- New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.
- Mark Twain
- Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
- Mark Twain
- Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
- Mark Twain
- Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
- Mark Twain
- The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
- The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
- Mark Twain
- The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
- Mark Twain
- The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
- Mark Twain
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