Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
MARK TWAINAnger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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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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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
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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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Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
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What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.
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The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.
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Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
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To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
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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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I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
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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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Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
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I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!
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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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