I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
MARK TWAINIn 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.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
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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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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
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Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
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History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
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In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
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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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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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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
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All right, then, I’ll go to hell.
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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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I haven’t any right to criticize books, and I don’t do it except when I hate them.
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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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It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
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