Directory of Mark Twain's maxims, quotations, and various opinions:

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DIPLOMACY

...the principle of give and take--give one and take ten--the principle of diplomacy.
- Dinner to Mr. Choate speech

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
- Mark Twain's Notebook, 1898

I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says--"Yes; the little ones does."
- Tom Sawyer Abroad

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