Mark Twain Quotes, Truth Quotes, Doubt Quotes

When in doubt, tell the truth. That maxim I did invent, but never expected it to be applied to me. I did say, "When you are in doubt," but when I am in doubt myself I use more sagacity.

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Quitting smoking is easy, I've done it hundreds of times.

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To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

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This autobiography of mine is a mirror, and I am looking at myself in it all the time. Incidentally I notice the people that pass along at my back - I get glimpses of them in the mirror - and whenever they say or do anything that can help advertise me and flatter me and raise me in my own estimation, I set these things down in my autobiography.

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One of my theories is that the hearts of men are about alike, no matter what their skin color.

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Supposing is good, but finding out is better.

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You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

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I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language.

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Ignorance is not not knowin' - Ignorance is knowin' what ain't so.

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God pours out love upon all with a lavish hand -- but He reserves vengeance for His very own.

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History has tried hard to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians. Now, to go and stick one at the very head of the government couldn't be wise.

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Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

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Canadian girls are so pretty it's a relief now and then to see a plain one.

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The citizen who sees his society's democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry it out, is not a patriot, but a traitor.

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You can't pray a lie -- I found that out.

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Vote: The only commodity that is peddleable without a license.

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But the people cannot have wells, and so they take rain-water. Neither can they conveniently have cellars or graves, the town being built upon "made ground"; so they do without both, and few of the living complain, and none of the others.

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The low level which commercial morality has reached in America is deplorable. We have humble God fearing Christian men among us who will stoop to do things for a million dollars that they ought not to be willing to do for less than 2 millions.

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When angry, count to a hundred.

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What a world of trouble those who never marry escape! There are many happy matches, it is true, and sometimes "my dear," and "my love" come from the heart; but what sensible bachelor, rejoicing in his freedom and years of discretion, will run the tremendous risk?

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