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Mark Twain
Education is the...
Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
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Good friends, good...
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience; this is the ideal life.
Source:...
Honest poverty is...
Honest poverty is a gem that even a king might be proud to call his own, but I wish to sell...
Forget and forgive....
Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive...
He is useless...
He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be be under it, inspiring the cabbages.
Fleas can be...
Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a congressman can.
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-- Mark...
Humor is the...
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing, after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our...
Honesty is the...
Honesty is the best policy -- when there is money in it.
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-- Mark Twain,...
Guides cannot master...
Guides cannot master the subtleties of the American joke.
Source: Innocents Abroad,...
Heaven goes by...
Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
Golf is a...
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
Source: Attributed; quoted in Greatly Exaggerated, ed....
I am a...
I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct -- nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this...
Humor is mankind's...
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
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-- Mark Twain, (Nov 30...
Have a place...
Have a place for everything and keep the things somewheres else. That is not advice, it is merely...
How superbly brave...
How superbly brave is the Englishman in the presence of the awfulest forms of danger & death; & how abject in the...
Happiness is like...
Happiness is like a Swedish sunset -- it is there for all, but most of us look the other way and lose...
I am an...
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
Humor is tragedy...
Humor is tragedy plus time.
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-- Mark Twain, (Nov 30 1835-1910), US...
He had had...
He had had much experience of physicians, and said, the only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want,...
Human nature is...
Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for...