Mark Twain Quotes
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The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - 'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.
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Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.
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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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The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
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All emotion is involuntary when genuine.
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Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
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Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.
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The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
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Prosperity is the best protector of principle.
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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
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A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
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To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
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All generalizations are false, including this one.
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Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
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...I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the limit forty years ago. You can't go beyond possibility.
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Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
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Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.
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To create man was a fine and original idea; but to add the sheep was a tautology.
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The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
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The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
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There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.
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Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.