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Mark Twain
The man who...
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
We have no...
We have no permanent brains until we are forty. Then they begin to harden, presently they petrify, then business...
The art of...
The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future.
We write frankly...
We write frankly and freely but then we modify'' before we print.
Source: Life on...
Hain't we got...
Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any...
It was wonderful...
It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been still more wonderful to miss it.
You can't depend...
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Source: In...
Why is it...
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person...
Work consists of...
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to...
Keep away from...
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you...
A big leather-bound...
A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table with a broken...
The fact that...
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that...
Wit is the...
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their marriage were not perceived to have any...
In the weltering...
In the weltering hell of the Moorooroo plain
The Yatala Wangary withers and dies,
And the Worrow Wanilla,...
Many a small...
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
Source: In...
There comes a...
There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for...
India has 2,000,000...
India has 2,000,000 gods, and worships them all. In religion other countries are paupers; India is the only...
An Englishman is...
An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things...
She was not...
She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of...
Only kings, editors,...
Only kings, editors, and people with tapeworm have the right to use the editorial we.