The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
MARK TWAINIf you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
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Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
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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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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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I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!
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Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
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A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.
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If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
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The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
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It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.
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Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
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The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
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Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
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The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
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