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189 quotes (Page 5 of 8 pages)My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.
Parents and Parenting
Mark Twain
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Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
Necessity
Mark Twain
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Never do wrong when people are looking.
Wrong
Mark Twain
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Never learn to do anything. If you don't learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you.
Learning
Mark Twain
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Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.
Learning
Mark Twain
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Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
Procrastination
Mark Twain
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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
Truth
Mark Twain
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No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.
Truth
Mark Twain
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Noise proves nothing, Often a hen who has laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
Complaints and Complaining
Mark Twain
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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
Reform
Mark Twain
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Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living.
Obscurity
Mark Twain
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Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.
Truth
Mark Twain
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Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.
Custom
Mark Twain
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One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.
Home
Mark Twain
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One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives.
Lies and Lying
Mark Twain
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Out of the unconscious lips of babes and sucklings are we satirized.
Sarcasm
Mark Twain
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People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.
Books - Reading
Mark Twain
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Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.
Pessimism
Mark Twain
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Pity is for living, envy is for dead.
Pity
Mark Twain
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Prosperity is the best protector of principle.
Principles
Mark Twain
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Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.
Prosperity
Mark Twain
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Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.
Opinions
Mark Twain
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Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
Caution
Mark Twain
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Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Congress
Mark Twain
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Sacred cows make the best hamburger.
Customers
Mark Twain
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun