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#1

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

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#2

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy

41006 likes

#3

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life

47058 likes

#4

“Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
― Paul Terry

tags: exercise, humor, laziness, misattributed-to-hutchins

24390 likes

#5

“Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”
― Markus Herz

tags: books, health, humor, misattributed-mark-twain, misprints

13739 likes

#6

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

tags: attributed-no-source, education

18232 likes

#7

“I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, knowledge

6886 likes

#8

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain

tags: truth

16216 likes

#9

“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
― Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

tags: books, truth

6036 likes

#10

“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
― Mark Twain

tags: bookroom, books, libraries, wisdom

10422 likes

#11

“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
― Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations

tags: writing

6213 likes

#12

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It

tags: travel

3985 likes

#13

“There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

tags: attributed-no-source, lies, lying, misattributed-mark-twain, statistics, truth

4014 likes

#14

“Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
― Mark Twain

tags: patriotism, politics

6007 likes

#15

“Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.”
― Mark Twain

465 likes

#16

“To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.”
― Mark Twain

tags: appreciation, companionship, joy

1375 likes

#17

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
― Will Rogers

tags: enterprise, humor, inertia, inspirational

3589 likes

#18

“Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.”
― Mark Twain

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