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You Quotes by Mark Twain
- I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.
- Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
- Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.
- Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
- Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
- Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
- If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
- Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
- 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.
- The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.
- You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
- When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
- Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
- Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
- Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
- When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
- If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
- Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
- She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that…
- Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
- Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
- The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
- It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.
- It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
- All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
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