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 TWAINIn 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.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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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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When angry, count four. When very angry, swear.
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A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
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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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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.
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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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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
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The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man’s.
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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.
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When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
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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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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
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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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Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
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