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 TWAINWorrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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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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A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
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Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
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When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
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A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
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Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.
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Obscurity and a competence – that is the life that is best worth living.
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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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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.
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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
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It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
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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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There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
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Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
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