Mark Twain Quotes, Mother Quotes, Truth Quotes

Look at the mother of Washington! She raised a boy that could not tell a lie--could not tell a lie! But he never had any chance. It might have been different if he had belonged to the Washington Newspaper Correspondents' Club

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Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he was alive. I wish they were used more.

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The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.

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It now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one...the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.

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When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

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A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

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Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

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Perhaps it will be simplest to throw away the tags and generalize India with one all-comprehensive name, as the Land of Wonders.

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When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

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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.

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Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

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You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

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All men are ignorant, just on different subjects.

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A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and -nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stock snuggles into your heart in the same way.

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Never argue with people who buy ink by the gallon.

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Humorists of the 'mere' sort cannot survive. Humor is only a fragrance, a decoration.

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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It is the prohibition that makes anything precious.

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To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.

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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

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How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

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