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.
MARK TWAINThere are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man’s notion that he is less savage than the other savages.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
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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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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
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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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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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The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
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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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A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.
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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 most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
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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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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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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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In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
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