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.
MARK TWAINA banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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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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Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
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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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My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.
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If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be – a Christian.
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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
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It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
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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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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
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In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
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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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Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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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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