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.
MARK TWAINNever argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.
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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
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All right, then, I’ll go to hell.
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If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.
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Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.
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It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
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A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.
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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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Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
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The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.
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Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.
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