If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Mark Twain
Tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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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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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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The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
Mark Twain
Tags: aliteracy, attributed- no-source, literacy
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Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.
Mark Twain
Tags: humor, procrastination
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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain
Tags: attributed-no-source, education
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′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.
Mark Twain
Tags: books, classic, reading
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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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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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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
Mark Twain
Tags: truth
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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
Tags: greatness
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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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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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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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Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain
Tags: living, world
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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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God created war so that Americans would learn geography.
Mark Twain
Tags: americans, geography, war
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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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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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Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
Mark Twain
Tags: heartbreak
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The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
Mark Twain , The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain
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Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
Mark Twain
Tags: patriotism, politics
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Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.
Mark Twain
Tags: age
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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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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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Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
Mark Twain
Tags: books-reading
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What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.
Mark Twain
Tags: humor, men, women
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Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
Mark Twain
Tags: happiness, sanity
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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Mark Twain
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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
Mark Twain
Tags: illusions, life
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