Mark Twain

"If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first."

-Mark Twain

"We have the best government that money can buy."

-Mark Twain

"Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it."

-Mark Twain

"It is not best that we should all think alike it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races."

-Mark Twain

"Prosperity is the best protector of principle."

-Mark Twain

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."

-Mark Twain

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"It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech."

-Mark Twain

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"Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks."

-Mark Twain

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"A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation."

-Mark Twain

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"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."

-Mark Twain

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"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare."

-Mark Twain

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"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."

-Mark Twain

"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."

-Mark Twain

"The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated."

-Mark Twain

"Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain."

-Mark Twain

"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards."

-Mark Twain

"Don't let schooling interfere with your education."

-Mark Twain

"I've never let my school interfere with my education."

-Mark Twain

"Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education."

-Mark Twain

"Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned."

-Mark Twain

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

-Mark Twain

"I never let schooling interfere with my education."

-Mark Twain

"Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run."

-Mark Twain

"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."

-Mark Twain

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"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."

-Mark Twain

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"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."

-Mark Twain

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"Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain."

-Mark Twain

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

-Mark Twain

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"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."

-Mark Twain

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"It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them."

-Mark Twain

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"Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company."

-Mark Twain

"Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please."

-Mark Twain

"All generalizations are false, including this one."

-Mark Twain

"By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean."

-Mark Twain

"Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet."

-Mark Twain

"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards."

-Mark Twain

"It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them."

-Mark Twain

"God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board."

-Mark Twain

"Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired."

-Mark Twain

"Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired."

-Mark Twain

"I can live for two months on a good compliment."

-Mark Twain

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."

-Mark Twain

"It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling."

-Mark Twain

"Golf is a good walk spoiled."

-Mark Twain

"Thunder is good, thunder is impressive but it is lightning that does the work."

-Mark Twain

"Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person."

-Mark Twain

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."

-Mark Twain

"Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example."

-Mark Twain

"It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech."

-Mark Twain

"There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice."

-Mark Twain

"To be good is noble but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble."

-Mark Twain

"Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks."

-Mark Twain

"What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before."

-Mark Twain

"We have the best government that money can buy."

-Mark Twain

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"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."

-Mark Twain

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"Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it."

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"Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one."

-Mark Twain

"My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it."

-Mark Twain

"I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened."

-Mark Twain

"My books are like water those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water."

-Mark Twain