Mark Twain

(259 votes)   Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute, but they all worship money.

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(242 votes)   It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.

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(232 votes)   I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said, I don't know.

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(120 votes)   All kings is mostly rapscallions.

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(120 votes)   [On his deathbed:] Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuse are for all -- the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved

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(113 votes)   The report of my death was an exaggeration After reading his own obituary, June 2 1897

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

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(107 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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(107 votes)   Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

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(103 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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(98 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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(97 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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