Classic – a book which people praise and don’t read.
MARK TWAINThe right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
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Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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Obscurity and a competence – that is the life that is best worth living.
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The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man’s.
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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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A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.
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Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.
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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 secret to getting ahead is getting started.
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It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.
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Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
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In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
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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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