Tag: Mark Twain

The rule is perfect in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

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The secret source of humour itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humour in heaven.

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The trouble isn’t that there are too many fools, but that the lightning isn’t distributed right.

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The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.

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The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

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The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

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There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.

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There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

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There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.

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There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn’t because the book is not there and worth being written — it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself.

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