The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
MARK TWAINThe two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.
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In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
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Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
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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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To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
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A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.
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Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
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The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
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Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
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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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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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Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.
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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
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