The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
MARK TWAINIt is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
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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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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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I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
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Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
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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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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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There’s one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he’s crooked.
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When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
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The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
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History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
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Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.
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The secret to getting ahead is getting started.
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Be good and you will be lonesome.
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There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
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