The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
MARK TWAINBe good and you will be lonesome.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.
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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
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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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Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
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I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
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Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
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Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
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All right, then, I’ll go to hell.
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There’s one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he’s crooked.
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Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.
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A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
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Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
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