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  • #1
    Mark Twain
    “′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
    Mark Twain

  • #2
    Mark Twain
    “Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
    Mark Twain

  • #3
    Mark Twain
    “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
    Mark Twain

  • #4
    Mark Twain
    “I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
    Mark Twain

  • #5
    Mark Twain
    “But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?”
    Mark Twain

  • #6
    Mark Twain
    “Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
    Mark Twain

  • #7
    Mark Twain
    “I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
    Mark Twain

  • #8
    Mark Twain
    “Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
    Mark Twain

  • #9
    Mark Twain
    “Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
    Mark Twain

  • #10
    Mark Twain
    “If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.”
    Mark Twain

  • #11
    Mark Twain
    “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”
    Mark Twain

  • #12
    Mark Twain
    “Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.”
    Mark Twain

  • #13
    Mark Twain
    “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.”
    Mark Twain

  • #14
    Mark Twain
    “I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”
    Mark Twain

  • #15
    Mark Twain
    “April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.”
    Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson and Other Tales

  • #16
    Mark Twain
    “Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
    Mark Twain

  • #17
    Mark Twain
    “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.”
    Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad

  • #18
    Mark Twain
    “When angry, count four. When very angry, swear.”
    Mark Twain

  • #19
    Mark Twain
    “Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.”
    Mark Twain

  • #20
    Mark Twain
    “The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.”
    Mark Twain

  • #21
    Mark Twain
    “The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.”
    Mark Twain

  • #22
    Mark Twain
    “Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.”
    Mark Twain

  • #23
    Mark Twain
    “I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.”
    Mark Twain
    tags: lies

  • #24
    Mark Twain
    “All right, then, I'll go to hell.”
    Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

  • #25
    Mark Twain
    “My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.”
    Mark Twain, Notebook

  • #26
    Mark Twain
    “The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.”
    Mark Twain

  • #27
    Mark Twain
    “If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be—a Christian.”
    Mark Twain, Notebook

  • #28
    Mark Twain
    “Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.”
    Mark Twain

  • #29
    Mark Twain
    “There's one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he's crooked.”
    Mark Twain

  • #30
    Mark Twain
    “In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.”
    Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World



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