Mark Twain Quotes

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

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• It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

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• The old saw says, “Let a sleeping dog lie.” Right. Still, when there is much at stake it is better to get a newspaper to do it.

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• If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.

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• Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

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• Don’t tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.

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• Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

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• Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

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• Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

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• The more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it.

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• To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man’s character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

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• As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

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

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• Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

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• The trouble ain’t that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain’t distributed right.

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• Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.

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• Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.

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• We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can “show off” and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can’t shake off. All our passengers are paying strict attention to this thing, with the end in view which I have mentioned. The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass.

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• Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.

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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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Mark Twain (414)

Birth:	30th November, 1835
Death:	21st April, 1910
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Humanist, Lecturer, Writer

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