The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
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Mark Twain
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About Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature". Twain's novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called the "Great American Novel". He also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and P…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Mark TwainGood breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive but it is lightning that does the work.
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
I can live for two months on a good compliment.
Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
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Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
All generalizations are false, including this one.
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.