Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
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Mark TwainNote to the Young People's Society, Greenpoint Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn (February 16, 1901)
About Mark Twain
American humorist and novelist, author of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. (1835-1910)
More from Mark Twain
- Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894), ch. 12
- The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter, 'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.Letter to George Bainton (October 15, 1888)
- Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs one step at a time.Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894), ch. 6
- Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.Following the Equator (1897), ch. 15
- Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.Interview by Rudyard Kipling, From Sea to Sea (1899)
- Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.Mark Twain's notebook (1904)
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- The chief penalty is to be governed by someone worse if a man will not himself hold office and rule.Plato
- The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.Confucius
- Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.Lao Tzu
- A leader is best when people barely know that he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worst when they despise him.Lao Tzu
- Governing a large country is like frying a small fish.Lao Tzu
- When a man does not know what harbour he is making for, no wind is the right wind.Seneca
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