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#1

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life

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#2

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

tags: books, classic, reading

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#3

“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
― Mark Twain

tags: bookroom, books, libraries, wisdom

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#4

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

tags: living, world

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#5

“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
― Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

tags: books, truth

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#6

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

tags: misattributed-mark-twain, newspapers

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#7

“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
― Mark Twain

tags: americans, geography, war

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#8

“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books-reading

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#9

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

tags: clothing

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#10

“History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”
― Mark Twain

tags: history

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#11

“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.”
― Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle

tags: government, kidding, misattributed-mark-twain, stupidity

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#12

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

tags: animals, dogs, heaven

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#13

“The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”
― Mark Twain

tags: starting, working

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#14

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
― Mark Twain

tags: arrogance, humor, ignorance

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#15

“Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.”
― Mark Twain

tags: enlightening

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#16

“Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.”
― Mark Twain

tags: blush, wordplay

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#17

“It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.”
― Mark Twain

tags: honors

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#18

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

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#19

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

tags: self-acceptance, self-esteem

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#20

“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

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#21

“What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.”
― Mark Twain

tags: creation, evolution, humor, mankind

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#22

“Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. ”
― Mark Twain

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#23

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

tags: books, writing

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#24

“There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.”
― Mark Twain

tags: sin, temptation

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#25

“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

tags: love, marriage, women

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#26

“The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.”
― Mark Twain

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#27

“Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.”
― Stendhal

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#28

“We’re in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry that it’s all gone. ”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

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#29

“Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

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#30

“The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called yourself.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

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