A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.
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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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
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If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
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Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
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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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Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
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Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
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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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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
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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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Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
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To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
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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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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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