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Mark Twain1835–1910

Mark Twain on honor

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

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Dance like nobody’s watching; love like you’ve never been hurt. Sing like nobody’s listening; live like it’s heaven on earth.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Quoting or paraphrasing a Professor Winchester in “Disappearance of Literature”, speech at the Nineteenth Century Club, New York, 20 November 1900, in Mark Twain’s Speeches (1910), ed. William Dean Howells, p. 194
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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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More about honor

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882The Conduct of Life (1860), Worship
If I lose mine honour, I lose myself.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Antony and Cleopatra (1600s), Act III, scene 4, line 22.In context
It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.
Alexis de Tocqueville1805–1859Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Three, Chapter XVIII.

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