I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
MARK TWAINThere 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.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.
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If 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.
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Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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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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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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Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
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April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
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A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.
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Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.
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The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
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It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
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The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.
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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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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.
MARK TWAIN