A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.
MARK TWAINObscurity and a competence – that is the life that is best worth living.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
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A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.
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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
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Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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Be good and you will be lonesome.
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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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Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
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I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
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If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.
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When angry, count four. When very angry, swear.
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I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
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Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
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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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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
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