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Wise Quotes by Mark Twain
- It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.
- A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.
- History has tried hard to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians. Now, to go and stick one at the very head…
- Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.
- Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
- The wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with a good object, and not an evil one;…
- Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
- Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket" - which is but a matter of saying, "Scatter your money and…
- We must annex those people. We can afflict them with our wise and beneficent government. We can introduce the novelty of thieves, all the way…
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