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Mark Twain
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A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
--Mark Twain
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
--Mark Twain
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
--Mark Twain
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
--Mark Twain
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
--Mark Twain
It is easier to stay out than get out.
--Mark Twain
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
--Mark Twain
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.
--Mark Twain
When in doubt, tell the truth.
--Mark Twain
When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one.
--Mark Twain
A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.
--Mark Twain
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.
--Mark Twain
Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.
--Mark Twain
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
--Mark Twain
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
--Mark Twain
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
--Mark Twain