Mark Twain Quotes

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If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.
- Mark Twain

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Golf is a good walk spoiled.
- Mark Twain

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What would men be without women? Scarce, sir .. mighty scarce.
- Mark Twain

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Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
- Mark Twain

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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
- Mark Twain

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Consider well the proportion of things. It is better to be a young June bug, than an old bird of paradise.
- Mark Twain

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To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
- Mark Twain

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There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy’s life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.
- Mark Twain

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To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I’ve done it a thousand times.
- Mark Twain

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The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.
- Mark Twain

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Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
- Mark Twain

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Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain

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Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
- Mark Twain

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A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.
- Mark Twain

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say it is brave.
- Mark Twain

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It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.
- Mark Twain

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Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is not a piece of advice, it is merely a custom.
– Mark Twain

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The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain

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I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
- Mark Twain

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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
- Mark Twain

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Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
- Mark Twain

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To cease smoking is the easiest thing. I ought to know. I’ve done it a thousand times.
- Mark Twain

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A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining.
- Mark Twain

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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

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Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain

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