Be good and you will be lonesome.
Mark Twain
 I am prepared to meet anyone, but whether anyone is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Mark Twain
 Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Mark Twain
 The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
Mark Twain
 A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody has read.
Mark Twain
 Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Mark Twain
 I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
Mark Twain
 Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.
Mark Twain
 The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
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.
Mark Twain
 Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow.
Mark Twain
 A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Mark Twain
 Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it.
Mark Twain
 Man is the only animal that blushes , or needs to.
Mark Twain
 Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Mark Twain
 Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Mark Twain
 Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
Mark Twain

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