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Mark Twain
November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910
Nationality: American
Category: Author
Subcategory: American Author

When in doubt tell the truth.

   

The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.

   

I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

   

Don't let schooling interfere with your education.

   

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

   

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

   

Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.

   

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

   

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

   

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

   

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

   

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

   

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

   

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

   

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

   

I've never let my school interfere with my education.

   

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

   

The Public is merely a multiplied "me."

   

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

   

If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

   

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