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#1

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

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#2

“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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#3

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, classic, reading

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#4

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

tags: attributed-no-source, education

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#5

“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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#6

“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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#7

“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
― Mark Twain

tags: americans, geography, war

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#8

“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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#9

“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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#10

“Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.”
― Mark Twain

tags: age

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#11

“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books-reading

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#12

“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
― Mark Twain

tags: happiness, sanity

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#13

“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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#14

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”
― Mark Twain

tags: courage

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#15

“The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.”
― Mark Twain

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#16

“I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”
― Mark Twain

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#17

“I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”
― Mark Twain

tags: austen, criticism, reading, writing

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#18

“April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.”
― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson and Other Tales

tags: humor

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#19

“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
― Mark Twain

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#20

“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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#21

“When angry, count four. When very angry, swear.”
― Mark Twain

tags: anger

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#22

“Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.”
― Mark Twain

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#23

“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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#24

“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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#25

“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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#26

“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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#27

“All right, then, I'll go to hell.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

tags: hell, resignation

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#28

“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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#29

“If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be—a Christian.”
― Mark Twain, Notebook

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#30

“The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.”
― Mark Twain

tags: animals, learn, like, people

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