The weakest of all weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fire.
~ Mark Twain
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The weakest of all weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fire.
~ Mark Twain
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I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.
~ Mark Twain
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I haven’t a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.
~ Mark Twain
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Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.
~ Mark Twain
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Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered — either by themselves or by others. But for the Civil War, Lincoln and Grant and Sherman and Sheridan would not have been discovered, nor have risen into notice.
~ Mark Twain
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You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
~ Mark Twain
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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
~ Mark Twain
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Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world — and never will.
~ Mark Twain
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Definition of a classic — something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
~ Mark Twain
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Humor must not professedly teach, and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever. By forever, I mean thirty years.
~ Mark Twain
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