Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
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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Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
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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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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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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
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Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
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Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
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Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
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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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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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My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.
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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
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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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