Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
MARK TWAINI haven’t any right to criticize books, and I don’t do it except when I hate them.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
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Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
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A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.
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I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
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A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
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A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
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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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Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
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April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.
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Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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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 trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.
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Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
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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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Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
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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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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
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All right, then, I’ll go to hell.
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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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Obscurity and a competence – that is the life that is best worth living.
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The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
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My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.
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The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man’s.
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Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
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Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.
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