I haven’t any right to criticize books, and I don’t do it except when I hate them.
MARK TWAINMy books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.
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Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.
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I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
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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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The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
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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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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
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It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
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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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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
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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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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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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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Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.
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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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A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.
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Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
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The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
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Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
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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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Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
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Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
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