Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
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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If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.
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If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.
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I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
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There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
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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.
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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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A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.
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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
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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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A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
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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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Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
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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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Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
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