Mark Twain Quotes
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In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
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It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
[Religion]
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It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
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It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.
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It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.
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It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.
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It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
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It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.
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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.
[Prudence]
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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.
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It is easier to stay out than get out.
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It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
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It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.
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It isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.
[Memory]
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It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval.
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It takes your enemy and your 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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It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
[Business]
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It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
[America]
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It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horseraces.
[Opinion]
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It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
[Sports]
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