A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
~ Mark Twain
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A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
~ 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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Virtue never has been as respectable as money.
~ Mark Twain
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To put it in rude, plain, unpalatable words — true patriotism, real patriotism is: loyalty not to a family and a fiction, but a loyalty to the nation itself.
~ Mark Twain
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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
~ Mark Twain
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Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
~ Mark Twain
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Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
~ 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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If you would have your work last forever, and by forever I mean fifty years, it must neither overtly preach nor overtly teach, but it must covertly preach and covertly teach.
~ Mark Twain
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