I haven’t any right to criticize books, and I don’t do it except when I hate them.
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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A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.
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It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
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To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
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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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If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.
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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
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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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The secret to getting ahead is getting started.
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There’s one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he’s crooked.
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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
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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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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
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