Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
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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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
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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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If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.
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Be good and you will be lonesome.
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A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.
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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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In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
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Classic – a book which people praise and don’t read.
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To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
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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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There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
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Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
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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.
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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
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If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
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