| 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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- Mark Twain |
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| A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. |
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- Mark Twain |
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| When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not. |
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- Mark Twain |
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| Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. |
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- Mark Twain |
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| The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not. |
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- Mark Twain |
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| It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive. |
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- Mark Twain |
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| What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense. |
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- Mark Twain |
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| In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer. |
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- Mark Twain |
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| The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your leg they don't tell you what to say. |
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- Mark Twain |
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| I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. |
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- Mark Twain |
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| Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. |
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- Mark Twain |
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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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- Mark Twain |
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| Thanksgiving Day, a function which originated in New England two or three centuries ago when those people recognized that they really had something to be thankful for - annually, not oftener - if they had succeeded in exterminating their neighbors, the Indians, during the previous twelve months instead of getting exterminated by their neighbors, the Indians. Thanksgiving Day became a habit, for the reason that in the course of time, as the years drifted on, it was perceived that the exterminating had ceased to be mutual and was all on the white man's side, consequently on the Lord's side; hence it was proper to thank the Lord for it and extend the usual annual compliments. |
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- Mark Twain |
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| Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. |
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- Mark Twain |
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| There are few things that are so unpardonably neglected in our country as poker. The upper class knows very little about it. Now and then you find ambassadors who have sort of a general knowledge of the game, but the ignorance of the people is fearful. Why, I have known clergymen, good men, kind-hearted, liberal, sincere, and all that, who did not know the meaning of a "flush." It is enough to make one ashamed of the species. |
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- Mark Twain |
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| It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race. |
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- Mark Twain |
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| Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. |
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- Mark Twain |
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| There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable. |
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- Mark Twain |
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| To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing. |
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- Mark Twain |
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| Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant; and if it can be baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary, it dies happy. |
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- Mark Twain |
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