I was looking for a specific quotation and I thought it might have been his. I didn’t find it, but I did find these gems.<\/p>\n
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”\u00a0
\n\u2014\u00a0Mark Twain <\/p>\n
“Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.”\u00a0
\n\u2014\u00a0Mark Twain <\/p>\n
“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”\u00a0
\n\u2014\u00a0Mark Twain <\/p>\n
“Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.”\u00a0
\n\u2014\u00a0Mark Twain<\/p>\n
“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”\u00a0
\n\u2014\u00a0Mark Twain <\/p>\n
“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.”\u00a0
\n\u2014\u00a0Mark Twain <\/p>\n
“You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?”\u00a0
\n\u2014\u00a0Mark Twain <\/p>\n
“Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.”\u00a0
\n\u2014\u00a0Mark Twain <\/p>\n
“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.”\u00a0
\n\u2014\u00a0Mark Twain\u00a0(The Innocents Abroad\/Roughing It) <\/p>\n
“A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.”\u00a0
\n\u2014\u00a0Mark Twain <\/p>\n
“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. ”\u00a0
\n\u2014\u00a0Mark Twain <\/p>\n
“Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.”\u00a0
\n\u2014\u00a0Mark Twain <\/p>\n
“I don’t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.”\u00a0
\n\u2014\u00a0Mark Twain <\/p>\n
“We are all stupid, just on different subjects”\u00a0
\n\u2014\u00a0Mark Twain <\/p>\n
“There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man’s notion that he less savage than the other savages.”\u00a0
\n\u2014\u00a0Mark Twain <\/p>\n
“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”\u00a0
\n\u2014\u00a0Mark Twain <\/p>\n
“We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it’s what he descends to that shames the human race.”\u00a0
\n\u2014\u00a0Mark Twain <\/p>\n
“Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know beacause I’ve done it thousands of times.”\u00a0
\n\u2014\u00a0Mark Twain <\/p>\n
“Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.”\u00a0
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