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 TWAINA successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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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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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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It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
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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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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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I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of 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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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
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Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
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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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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
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There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man’s notion that he is less savage than the other savages.
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If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do 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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