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3 December 2020 Mark Twain

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

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.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

We have the best government that money can buy.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

I have made it a rule never to smoke more that one cigar at a time.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

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

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

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

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

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

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

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

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

My books are like water those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

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

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

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

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

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