Stephen Burckhardt Favourite Quotes Collection

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What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.
Mark TwainBetween 94
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But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
Mark TwainHumor 84
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Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
Mark TwainDrag 80
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The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
Mark TwainAliteracy 85
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Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
Mark TwainFunny 116
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Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
Mark TwainConduct 95
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I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
Mark TwainMoney 196
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History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is immortal.
Mark TwainHistory 235
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The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.
Mark TwainHumor 201
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Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twainage 112
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When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only but also teachings out of books for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.
Mark TwainMind 151
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The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
Mark TwainInnovation 148
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I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.
Mark TwainTruth 140
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Its better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt
Mark TwainHumorous 395
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Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark TwainKindness 219
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To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler and less trouble.
Mark TwainTeaching 196
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Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
Mark TwainFunny 259
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