The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
MARK TWAINIn the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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Be good and you will be lonesome.
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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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Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
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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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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
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I haven’t any right to criticize books, and I don’t do it except when I hate them.
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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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Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
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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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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
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Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
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There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
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