Mark Twain

(92 votes)   One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

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(91 votes)   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.

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(91 votes)   People born to be hanged are safe in water.

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(90 votes)   There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(90 votes)   There it is: it doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on! somebody to hold in light esteem, somebody to be indifferent about.

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(89 votes)   Everyone is like a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

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1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(89 votes)   Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

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(89 votes)   We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.

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(88 votes)   It takes an enemy and a friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart. The one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you.

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1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(88 votes)   The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

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(88 votes)   Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

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(87 votes)   By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.

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1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(86 votes)   Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

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(86 votes)   The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

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(84 votes)   A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.

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1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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