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Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. (Mark Twain)
Never let the truth get in the way of a good story. View quote
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Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought. View quote
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Words are only painted fire, a look is the fire itself. She gave that look, and carried it away to the treasury of heaven, where all things that are divine belong. View quote
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Man - a figment of God's imagination. View quote
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How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good. View quote
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Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone. View quote
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One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke. View quote
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I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing. View quote
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It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips. View quote
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I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect. (Mark Twain)
Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh. View quote
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It is higher and nobler to be kind. View quote
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It may have happened, it may not have happened but it could have happened. View quote
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Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do. View quote
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Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. View quote
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Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself. View quote
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If you must be indiscrete, be discrete in your indiscretion. View quote
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When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them--then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are far apart. View quote
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When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers. View quote
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Choosing not to read is like closing an open door to paradise. (Mark Twain)
If you want me to give you a two-hour presentation, I am ready today. If you want only a five-minute speech, it will take me two weeks to prepare. View quote
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It's not the good that die young, it's the lucky. View quote
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To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin. View quote
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One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning. View quote
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Mark Twain

Occupation: American Author
Born: November 30, 1835
Died: April 21, 1910
Quotes count: 1199
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