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.
MARK TWAINIt’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
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In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
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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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I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.
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Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.
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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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If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do 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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Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.
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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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The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
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I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!
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Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.
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I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
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All right, then, I’ll go to hell.
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