Mark Twain Quotes

Mark Twain was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

10. To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

9. Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

8. You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

7. Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

6. The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

The Complete Works of Mark Twain

5. It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

4. The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

3. In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

2. Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

1. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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