Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
MARK TWAINGiving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.
More Mark Twain Quotes
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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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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed 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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Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
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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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I haven’t any right to criticize books, and I don’t do it except when I hate them.
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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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April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.
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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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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.
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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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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
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My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.
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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
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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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