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Mark Twain
I can understand...
I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an...
The very ink...
The very ink in which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
Source:...
The first half...
The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance...
Don't, like the...
Don't, like the cat, try to get more out of an experience than there is in it. The cat, having sat upon a hot stove...
Let us be...
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
Humor must not...
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live...
Don't part with...
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to...
Truth is stranger...
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth...
Habit is habit,...
Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a...
Thousands of geniuses...
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered -- either by themselves or by others.
Between us, we...
Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.
I must have...
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it...
Happiness ain't a...
Happiness ain't a thing in itself -- it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. . . . And so, as soon as...
There was things...
There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.
Source: The...
Let us endeavor...
Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
I reverently believe...
I reverently believe that the Maker who made us all makes everything in New England but the weather. I don't know who...
As a thinker...
As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts...
Any so-called material...
Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content...
Do not undervalue...
Do not undervalue the headache. While it is at its sharpest it seems a bad investment; but when relief begins, the...
Good breeding consists...
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other...