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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The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.
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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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The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
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The secret to getting ahead is getting started.
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Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
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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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A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.
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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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I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
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Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
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History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
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It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
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