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 TWAINMy books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
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If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.
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Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.
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Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
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Classic – a book which people praise and don’t read.
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I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.
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History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
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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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When angry, count four. When very angry, swear.
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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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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
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Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
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Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
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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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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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