My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.
MARK TWAINThere is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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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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I haven’t any right to criticize books, and I don’t do it except when I hate them.
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Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
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When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
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It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
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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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Obscurity and a competence – that is the life that is best worth living.
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There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man’s notion that he is less savage than the other savages.
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Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
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If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
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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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