It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.


Mark Twain

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People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them.
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You deserve to need me, not to have me.
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Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.
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We dismiss them with the contempt they deserve.
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I'm not this dark, twisted person. Yes, I have my demons and this is my way of exorcising them. ...
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Our men and women in uniform deserve the best intelligence possible to help them protect America.
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When people have not the same ideas, it is certainly better not to talk about them.
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My dad says people who insist that youtrust them usually don't deserve it.
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Our fans are the best, and we wish we could win for them. They certainly deserve it.
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I will not try to convince you to love me, to respect me, to commit to me. I deserve better than tha...
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His toes wriggle in his socks and my first thought is, I want to snip them off with hedge trimmers. ...
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It was classless. I don't deserve to be treated like that after making them millions of dollars.
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They deserve better than they've got.
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Life is designed to reward deserve and not desire
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Those only deserve a monument who do not need one
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My compositions deserve the medal, not me.
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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for hono...
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We're not lowering our standards. This is a catalyst for all the good families out there. We're will...
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Certain girls deserve lots of flowers. You are one of them.
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You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
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Americans deserve an attorney general that will be honest with them, they deserve an attorney genera...
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Friends deserve better from me than to try and weasel out the back door.
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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the reall...
MARK TWAIN
If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.
MARK TWAIN
′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.
MARK TWAIN
Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
MARK TWAIN
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
MARK TWAIN
The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
MARK TWAIN
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Trut...
MARK TWAIN
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
MARK TWAIN
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
MARK TWAIN
All right, then, I'll go to hell.
MARK TWAIN
The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.
MARK TWAIN
Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
MARK TWAIN
If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be—a Christian.
MARK TWAIN
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
MARK TWAIN
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it ...
MARK TWAIN
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
MARK TWAIN
Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
MARK TWAIN
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
MARK TWAIN
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.
MARK TWAIN