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What’s the use you learning to do right when it’s troublesome to do right and ain’t no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same? (Mark Twain Quotes)
What’s the use you learning to do right , when it’s troublesome to do right and it ain’t no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same? (Mark Twain Quotes)
Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. (Mark Twain Quotes)
Don’t tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish. (Mark Twain Quotes)
My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water. (Mark Twain Quotes)
A man’s first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first. (Mark Twain Quotes)
Rise early. It is the early bird that catches the worm. Don’t be fooled by this absurd law; I once knew a man who tried it. He got up at sunrise and a horse bit him. (Mark Twain Quotes)
There is nothing but that frail breastwork of earth between the people and destruction (Mark Twain Quotes)
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times. (Mark Twain Quotes)
Writing is the easiest thing in the world.... Just try it sometime. I sit up with a pipe in my mouth and a board on my knees and I scribble away. (Mark Twain Quotes)
Principles aren’t of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season. (Mark Twain Quotes)
The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing, it is the thing to watch over and care for and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous. . . . (Mark Twain Quotes)
Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child’s loss of a doll and a king’s loss of a crown are events of the same size. (Mark Twain Quotes)
Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude will convey deception. (Mark Twain Quotes)
Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings (Mark Twain Quotes)
Twenty-four years ago I was strangely handsome; in San Francisco in the rainy season I was often mistaken for fair weather. (Mark Twain Quotes)
It was the schoolboy who said, Faith is believing what you know ain’t so (Mark Twain Quotes)
What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must. Who is God, the one and only true? Money is God. Gold and Greenbacks and Stock-father, son, and ghosts of same, three persons in one; These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme. (Mark Twain Quotes)
I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can’t find anybody who can tell me what they want. (Mark Twain Quotes)
My heart goes out to anyone who is making his first appearance before an audience of human beings (Mark Twain Quotes)
In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards. (Mark Twain Quotes)
...many foolish persons, wanderers from other parts, have the vain fashion of graving their names and the obscure places whence they come, upon its stones, which is silly and marketh the doer for a fool. (Mark Twain Quotes)
Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven and hell and I have only a vague curiosity about one of those. (Mark Twain Quotes)
In forgiving, people are not being asked to forget. On the contrary, it is important to remember, so that we should not let such atrocities happen again. Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. It means taking what happened seriously...drawing out the sting in the memory that threatens our entire existence. (Mark Twain Quotes)
None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try (Mark Twain Quotes)
Mark Twain married the daughter of one of New York State’s leading Abolitionists, Jervis Langdon, who helped Frederick Douglass who became the great Negro leader to escape from slavery. (Mark Twain Quotes)
What a lie it is to call this a free country, where none but the unworthy and undeserving may swear. (Mark Twain Quotes)
Your friends may love you in private but your enemies will hate you in public (Mark Twain Quotes)
It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not been standing still, in that matter. (Mark Twain Quotes)
When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn’t for years that you realize the full extent of your loss. (Mark Twain Quotes)