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    Mark Twain
    “If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: animals, cats, dogs, grace, reticence
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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
    “I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Mark Twain
    “History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: history
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    Mark Twain
    “A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: conscience, humor, memory
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    Mark Twain
    “The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: self-acceptance, self-esteem
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    Mark Twain
    “Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: enlightening
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    Mark Twain
    “When angry, count four. When very angry, swear.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: anger
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    Mark Twain
    “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.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Mark Twain
    “Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.”
    ― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson
    tags: censorship, fallibility, humor, sin
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    Mark Twain
    “The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: laughter
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    Mark Twain
    “I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.”
    ― Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad
    tags: humor, travel
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    “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
    “It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: bravery, character, courage, moral-courage
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    Mark Twain
    “You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
    ― Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
    tags: imagination
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    Mark Twain
    “It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: honors
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    Mark Twain
    “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, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
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    Mark Twain
    “The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Mark Twain
    “In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: politics
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    Mark Twain
    “Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: anger
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    Mark Twain
    “I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies
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    Mark Twain
    “The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: animals, dogs, heaven, inspirational, man, religion
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    Mark Twain
    “Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: cats
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    Mark Twain
    “Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. ”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Mark Twain
    “The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: remaining-silent, reticence
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    Mark Twain
    “Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: imagination, reality
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    Mark Twain
    “Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer."

    [Mark Twain, a Biography]”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, prayer, profanity, relief, you-ll-completely-understand-why
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    Mark Twain
    “A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies
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    Mark Twain
    “Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: on-writing
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    Mark Twain
    “The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: government
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