A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.
MARK TWAINIn the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
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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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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
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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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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.
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My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.
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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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There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.
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The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
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To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
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In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
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