Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
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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 TwainI must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow there is no humor in Heaven.
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
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The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
My books are like water those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
We have the best government that money can buy.
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.
To be good is noble but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.
There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.