Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

About Mark Twain

Portrait of Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature". Twain's novels include...

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If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.

Honesty is the best policy—when there is money in it.

You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are.

Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

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Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.

—Madam Guizot

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You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

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In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?

Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.

—Jules Renard

The loss of one's dignified bearing is often sudden.

—Jerry Van Amerongen

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