Mark Twain

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"Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it."	Comedy, Honesty
"Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain't so."	Comedy, Honesty
"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."	Comedy, Honesty
"I am different from Washington; I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't."	Comedy, Honesty
"The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right."	Success, Ignorance
"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."	Success, Insults
"Yes, Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brain. So far you are correct. But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat - at least, not with certainty. If the specimen composition you send is about your fair usual average, I should judge that a couple of whales would be all you would want for the present. Not the largest kind, but simply good middling-sized whales."	Success, Insults
"Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned."	Success, Learning
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."	Success, Life
"Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident."	Luck
"In the real world, the right thing never happens in the right place and the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to make it appear that it has."	Quotations
"Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man - the biography of the man himself cannot be written."	Miscellaneous
"Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man - the biography of the man himself cannot be written."	Quotations
"October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February."	Money
"My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders."	Patriotism
"All religions issue bibles against him, and say most injurious things about him, but we never hear his side."	Quotations
"Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out."	Prayer
"It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive."	Quotations
"What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense."	Quotations
"But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?"	Religion
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