Obscurity and a competence – that is the life that is best worth living.
MARK TWAINI 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.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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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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Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.
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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
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Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.
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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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Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.
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Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
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I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!
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Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.
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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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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
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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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