The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
MARK TWAINYou can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
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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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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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Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
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There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.
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You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
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I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.
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Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
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Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
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There’s one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he’s crooked.
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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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If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.
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Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
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Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.
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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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Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.
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I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
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The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
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When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
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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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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
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