Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer.Wikipedia
Quotes by Mark Twain
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).
Mark Twain
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
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Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
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In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
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Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
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Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
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Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
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Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
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But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
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The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
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Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
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Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
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