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 careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

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.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

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

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.

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.

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

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

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.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.