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“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― 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

“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

“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
― Mark Twain

“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”
― Mark Twain

“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. ”
― Mark Twain

“The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.”
― Mark Twain

“After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.”
― Mark Twain, The Diaries of Adam & Eve: Translated by Mark Twain

“Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”
― Mark Twain

“Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.”
― Mark Twain, Christian Science

“The lack of money is the root of all evil.”
― Mark Twain

“Write what you know.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.”
― Mark Twain

“There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.”
― Mark Twain

“A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.”
― Mark Twain

“The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetic in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve. And every step in astronomy and geology ever taken has been opposed by bigotry and superstition. The Greeks surpassed us in artistic culture and in architecture five hundred years before Christian religion was born.”
― Mark Twain

“The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.”
― Mark Twain

“Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. ”
― Mark Twain

“The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.”
― mark twain

“Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought.”
― Mark Twain

“Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”
― Mark Twain

“Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.”
― Mark Twain

“There is no such thing as an ordinary life.”
― Mark Twain

“We can't all be heros because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.”
― Mark Twain

“Those who don't read good books have no advantage over those who can't.”
― Mark Twain

“I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.”
― Mark Twain, Stories

“Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilt.”
― Mark Twain, On Religion