"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

Twain, Mark on education
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"The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them."

Twain, Mark on books - reading
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"Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket."

Twain, Mark on caution   

"We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him."

Twain, Mark on thoughts and thinking   

"I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them."

Twain, Mark on travel
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"Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use."

Twain, Mark on writers and writing
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"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."

Twain, Mark on conservatives   

"Don't throw stones at your neighbors , if your own windows are glass."

Franklin, Benjamin on neighbors
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"He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir."

Franklin, Benjamin on stupidity
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"Every fool finds a greater one to admire them."

Bioleau on fools and foolishness
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"There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can."

Twain, Mark on speculation
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"It takes an enemy and a friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart. The one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you."

Twain, Mark on slander
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"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."

Twain, Mark on facts
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"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

Twain, Mark on fools and foolishness
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"I did not attend his funeral; but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved of it. [About a politician who had recently died]"

Twain, Mark on funerals
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"Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat."

Twain, Mark on humankind
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"We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter."

Twain, Mark on knowledge
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"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."

Twain, Mark on knowledge
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"Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."

Twain, Mark on life
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"When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not."

Twain, Mark on memory
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"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."

Twain, Mark on procrastination
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"Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet."

Proverb, African on fools and foolishness
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