Mark Twain

(81 votes)   Behold, the fool saith, Put not all thine eggs in the one basket, -- which is but a manner of saying, Scatter your money and your attention, but the wise man saith, Put all your eggs in the one basket and -- watch that basket.

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(81 votes)   I have a higher and greater standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie but I won't.

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(81 votes)   Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

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(80 votes)   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.

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(80 votes)   Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.

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1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(79 votes)   A soiled baby, with a neglected nose, cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.

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1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(79 votes)   When in doubt tell the truth.

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(78 votes)   Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

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(78 votes)   Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.

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(78 votes)   The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.

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(78 votes)   Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.

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(77 votes)   By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.

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(77 votes)   Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race -- the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety's or comfort's sake, to stand well in his neighbor's eye. These institutions will always remain, and always flourish, and always oppress you, affront you, and degrade you, because you will always be and remain slaves of minorities. There was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.

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(77 votes)   The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nation, and from the mass of the nation only -- not from its privileged classes.

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(76 votes)   A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.

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