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Mark Twain Quotes

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality

The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person

He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue

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

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling

Etiquette requires us to admire the human race

By the etiquette of war, it is permitted to none below the rank of newspaper correspondent to dictate to the general in the field

Golf is good walk spoiled

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all tradesî

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