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.
MARK TWAINThe best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
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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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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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Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
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I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.
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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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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
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My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.
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Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
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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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The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.
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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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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
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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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