Mark Twain Quotes

Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.

Mark Twain, 11/30/1835 - 04/21/1910
US author

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Mark Twain

Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.

Mark Twain

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 a man.

Mark Twain

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