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.
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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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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I haven’t any right to criticize books, and I don’t do it except when I hate them.
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A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.
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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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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
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Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.
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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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I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
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To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
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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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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
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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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Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
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The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
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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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