Mark Twain Quotes, Lying Quotes, Covering Quotes

To avoid lying, do nothing that needs covering.

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My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.

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I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.

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It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

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When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder.

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I hate to hear people say this Judge will vote so and so, because he is a Democrat -- and this one so and so because he is a Republican. It is shameful. The Judges have the Constitution for their guidance; they have no right to any politics save the politics of rigid right and justice when they are sitting in judgment upon the great matters that come before them.

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I have not professionally dealt in truth. Many when they come to die have spent all the truth that was in them, and enter the next world as paupers. I have saved up enough to make an astonishment there.

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Braveness is resistance to concern, mastery of panic - not absense of anxiety.

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One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.

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We grant God the possession of all the qualities of mind except the one that keeps the others healthy; that watches over their dignity; that focuses their vision true--humor.

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The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.

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The longing of my heart is a fairy portrait of myself: I want to be pretty; I want to eliminate facts and fill up the gap with charms.

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One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.

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If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.

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It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it.

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It is noble to teach oneself; it is still nobler to teach others.

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To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master.

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I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics. No man can.

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I was born modest, but it didn't last.

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As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.

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