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First, get the facts, then you can distort them at your leisure.
~Mark Twain
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It now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one... the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.
~Mark Twain
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I have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
~Mark Twain
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When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.
~Mark Twain
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A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.
~Mark Twain
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Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
~Mark Twain
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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
~Mark Twain
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Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
~Mark Twain
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The difference between the right word and almost the right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
~Mark Twain
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear.
~Mark Twain
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When in doubt, tell the truth.
~Mark Twain
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I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.
~Mark Twain
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Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
~Mark Twain
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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
~Mark Twain
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If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
~Mark Twain
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If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
~Mark Twain