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.
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.
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Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
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You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
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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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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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A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
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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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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
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The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.
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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
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Be good and you will be lonesome.
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The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
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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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Obscurity and a competence – that is the life that is best worth living.
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Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
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Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
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All right, then, I’ll go to hell.
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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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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.
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When angry, count four. When very angry, swear.
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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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The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
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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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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
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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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