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A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

Mark Twain

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
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Effect Let Go Pause Time
It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
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Convince Fools People Reality
The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man’s.
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Dog Dreamss Gentleman Heaven Hope Man One Liner
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
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FAction Healing Humour Treat
There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.
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Comedy Drama Impossible Interesting Life Tragedy
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
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Country Deserve Government Help Patriotism Support
A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.
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Book Humour Success Writing
Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
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Cease Exist Illusion Life Live
Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.
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Animal Cruel Man Pain Pleasure
There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
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Charm Desire Forbidden Speak
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
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Forgiveness Gragnance Heel Peace Wisdom
There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man’s notion that he is less savage than the other savages.
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Humour Man Savage World
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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Absorb Book Goodness Mystery Room Skin Wisdom
Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.
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Change Politics Reason
I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
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Approve Attend Funeral Funny Humour Insult Letter
If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.
MARK TWAIN

Animal Dog Fellow Grace Speak

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