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Mark Twain's Quotes

·        ``A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is still putting on its boots. ''

·        ``A man with a new idea is a crank until he succeeds. ''

·        ``All you need in life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. ''

·        ``Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. ''

·        ``Always do right- this will gratify some and astonish the rest. ''

·        ``Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary. ''

·        ``Broad, wholesome, charitable views ... can not be acquired by vegetating in one's little corner of the earth. ''

·        ``Be careful of reading health books, you might die of a misprint. ''

·        ``Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. ''

·        ``Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. ''

·        ``Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company. ''

·        ``Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. ''

·        ``Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. (The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.) ''

·        ``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. ''

·        ``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. ''

·        ``Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century. ''

·        ``Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. ''

·        ``The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot. ''

·        ``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 twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learnt in seven years. ''

• ``You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus. ''

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