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I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

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I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

By 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.

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In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

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Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

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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.

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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

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Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

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Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

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Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

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Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

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It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

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I can live for two months on a good compliment.

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I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

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Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

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Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

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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.

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

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Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.

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When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.

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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.

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We had the sky up there, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss whether they was made or just happened.

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We have the best government that money can buy.

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We are all alike, on the inside.

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We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.

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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

By Mark Twain