Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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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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.
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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
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Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
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The secret to getting ahead is getting started.
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It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
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The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man’s.
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Obscurity and a competence – that is the life that is best worth living.
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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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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
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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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History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
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Classic – a book which people praise and don’t read.
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The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
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It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
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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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