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Quotes of Mark Twain [60]
- It takes an enemy and a friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart. The one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you.
- Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.
- The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.
- If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
- 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.
- I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
- I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it.
- Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
- Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
- Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
- Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands.
- Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
- Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
- A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
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