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'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
Mark Twain

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Mark Twain

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
Mark Twain

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Mark Twain

All generalizations are false, including this one.
Mark Twain

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.
Mark Twain

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark Twain

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
Mark Twain

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.
Mark Twain

Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
Mark Twain

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
Mark Twain

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
Mark Twain

Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?
Mark Twain /Huckelberry Finn/

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
Mark Twain

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
Mark Twain

Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity - these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them. They hide nothing. They are not ashamed.
Mark Twain /Letters from the Earth/

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
Mark Twain

It is easier to stay out than get out.
Mark Twain

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
Mark Twain

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
Mark Twain

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

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain

Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
Mark Twain

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
Mark Twain

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
Mark Twain

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
Mark Twain

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
Mark Twain

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
Mark Twain

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.
Mark Twain

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.
Mark Twain

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
Mark Twain

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.
Mark Twain

We have the best government that money can buy.
Mark Twain

We have two opinions: one private, which we are afraid to express; and another one - the one we use - which we force ourselves to wear to please Mrs. Grundy, until habit makes us comfortable in it, and the custom of defending it presently makes us love it, adore it, and forget how pitifully we came by it. Look at it in politics.
Mark Twain /Mark Twain in Eruption/