When angry, count four. When very angry, swear.
MARK TWAINIt’s better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.
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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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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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To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
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There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
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Classic – a book which people praise and don’t read.
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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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Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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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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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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You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
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All right, then, I’ll go to hell.
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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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Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.
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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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