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- I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
- Mark Twain
- I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain
- I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
- Mark Twain
- I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened
- Mark Twain
- I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.
- Mark Twain
- I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
- Mark Twain
- I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
- Mark Twain
- I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have got so much more of it.
- Mark Twain
- If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.
- Mark Twain
- 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.
- Mark Twain
- If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
- Mark Twain
- In his private heart no man respects himself.
- Mark Twain
- In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.
- Mark Twain
- In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.
- Mark Twain
- In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
- Mark Twain
- It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.
- Mark Twain
- It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.
- Mark Twain
- It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
- Mark Twain
- It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
- Mark Twain
- It is easier to stay out than get out.
- Mark Twain
- It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
- Mark Twain
- It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
- Mark Twain
- Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.
- Mark Twain
- 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.
- Mark Twain
- Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
- Mark Twain
- Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
- Mark Twain
- Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that are forever blowing through one's mind.
- Mark Twain
- Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible.
- Mark Twain
- Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.
- Mark Twain
- My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
- Mark Twain
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