Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
MARK TWAINMy books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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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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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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To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
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It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
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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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A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.
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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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When angry, count four. When very angry, swear.
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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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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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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
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Classic – a book which people praise and don’t read.
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Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
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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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