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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: attributed-no-source, education
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    Mark Twain
    “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: death, life
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    Mark Twain
    “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: misattributed-mark-twain, truth
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    Mark Twain
    “Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: truth
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    Mark Twain
    “In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: bookroom, books, libraries, wisdom
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    Mark Twain
    “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.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, writing
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    Mark Twain
    “Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, politics
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    Mark Twain
    “I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: classic-insult, funeral, funny, humor
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    Mark Twain
    “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: americans, geography, war
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    Mark Twain
    “I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, knowledge
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    Mark Twain
    “Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: heartbreak
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    Mark Twain
    “But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor-satan
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    Mark Twain
    “I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: death, inspirational
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    Mark Twain
    “Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: patriotism, politics
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    Mark Twain
    “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
    ― Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
    tags: books, truth
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    Mark Twain
    “Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books-reading
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    Mark Twain
    “What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, men, women
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    Mark Twain
    “Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: happiness, sanity
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    Mark Twain
    “When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: arrogance, humor, ignorance
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    Mark Twain
    “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
    ― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It
    tags: travel
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    Mark Twain
    “Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: darkness, human-nature, moon
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    Mark Twain
    “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: clothing
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    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 man.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Mark Twain
    “If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: misattributed-mark-twain, newspapers
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    Mark Twain
    “Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: morals
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    Mark Twain
    “The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Mark Twain
    “I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor
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