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 TWAINDon’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.
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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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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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When angry, count four. When very angry, swear.
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The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.
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A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.
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Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.
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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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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.
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Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
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The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
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A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.
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