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 TWAINThe man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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It’s better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt.
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The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
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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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The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.
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Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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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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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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The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.
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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
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Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.
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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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Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
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Obscurity and a competence – that is the life that is best worth living.
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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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