I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
MARK TWAINBe good and you will be lonesome.
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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Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.
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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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If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
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The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
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Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
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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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Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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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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What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.
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I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
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The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
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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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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
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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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