Mark Twain Quotes, Lying Quotes, Deceit Quotes

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

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The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, too.

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Man is the only religious animal. In the Holy task of smoothing his brother's path to the happiness of heaven, he has turned the globe into a graveyard.

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Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.

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...many foolish persons, wanderers from other parts, have the vain fashion of graving their names and the obscure places whence they come, upon its stones, which is silly and marketh the doer for a fool.

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There will never be a "perfect" time to quit smoking. A time when you don't have any distractions or stress... If you had started today one year ago, this would not even be an issue for you today! Don't waste another year!

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Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness.

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There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one?

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If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.

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

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The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another.

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Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.

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Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

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If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty.

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The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

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Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men.

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Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine.

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Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh.

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School gets in the way of my learning.

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We regret the things we don't do more than the things we do.

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