Mark Twain Quotes, Noble Quotes

To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble.

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It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth.

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When in doubt tell the truth.

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Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you have not lived you cannot write, you can only pretend to write it.

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What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.

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The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with commoner things. It is chief of this world'd luxuries, king by grace of God over all the fruits of the earth. When one has tasted it, he knows what the angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took: we know it because she repented.

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The only people that a bank will loan money to is the very people who don't need it.

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A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.

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A man can be a Christian or a patriot, but he can't legally be a Christian and a patriot - except in the usual way: one of the two with the mouth, the other with the heart.

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

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Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude will convey deception.

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I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

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As one boy said, 'I was thinking all these horrible thoughts about my parents when suddenly it hit me-if they're all that bad, how come I'm so wonderful'

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I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.

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There's something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don't work for me, and I reckon it don't work for only just the right kind.

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Education is what you must acquire without any interference from your schooling.

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They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose it is so.

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Wisdom teaches us that none but birds should go out early, and that not even birds should do it unless they are out of worms.

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Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination.

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That reminds me to remark, in passing, that the very first official thing I did, in my administration-and it was on the first day of it, too-was to start a patent office; for I knew that a country without a patent office and good patent laws was just a crab, and couldn't travel any way but sideways or backways.

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