Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Mark Twain Quotes Click here for Mark Twain books The Autobiography of Mark Twain (Perennial Classics) "It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt." "I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know." "Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." "Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." "Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer." "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” "It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.” "Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.” "Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.” "It is easier to stay out than get out." "Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion." "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first” "No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session." "There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress." "Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen” "It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.” "The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.” "The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.” "Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough." "In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards." "We have the best government that money can buy.”
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