Mark Twain

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(608 votes)  The Pause; that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, however so felicitous, could accomplish it.

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1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(993 votes)  I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell -- you see, I have friends in both places.

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(933 votes)  Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

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(897 votes)  It was the schoolboy who said, ''Faith is believing what you know ain't so.''

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1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(887 votes)  Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

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(861 votes)  It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

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1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(842 votes)  If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

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(840 votes)  You can't pray a lie.

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(715 votes)  Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

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(689 votes)  The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

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1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(669 votes)  Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

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(668 votes)  It is nobler to be good, and it is nobler to teach others to be good -- and less trouble!

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(660 votes)  What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.

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(652 votes)  Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

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(643 votes)  That's what an army is -- a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers.

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(619 votes)  Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

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(616 votes)  Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

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(613 votes)  In the first place God made idiots; that was for practice; then he made school boards.

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(613 votes)  Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

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(606 votes)  To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler and less trouble.

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(603 votes)  Where prejudice exists it always discolors our thoughts

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(602 votes)  Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

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(600 votes)  A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.

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(598 votes)  Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

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(595 votes)  Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

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(594 votes)  It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.

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(593 votes)  The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up

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(589 votes)  On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.

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(587 votes)  Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

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(587 votes)  Golf is a good walk spoiled.

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(586 votes)  When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.

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(585 votes)  There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

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(585 votes)  Be good and you will be lonely.

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(585 votes)  It is easier to stay out than get out.

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(584 votes)  When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

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(583 votes)  A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.

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(581 votes)  True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god.

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(581 votes)  There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.

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(580 votes)  All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised.

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(580 votes)  I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won t.

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(580 votes)  You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

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(578 votes)  I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

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(574 votes)  There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.

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(571 votes)  Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.

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(568 votes)  If He Tom Sawyer had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

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(564 votes)  Familiarity breeds contempt and children.

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(550 votes)  October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.

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(548 votes)  Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of them.

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(546 votes)  Pity is for living, envy is for dead.

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(537 votes)  Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors.

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