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 TWAINPoliticians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.
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There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
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The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.
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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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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed 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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Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.
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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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It’s better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt.
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Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.
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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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Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.
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Be good and you will be lonesome.
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Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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When angry, count four. When very angry, swear.
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History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
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