Mark Twain
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A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.

In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

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

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

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.

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

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

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