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Mark Twain
Good judgment comes from experience. And where does experience come from? Experience comes from bad judgment.
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Mark Twain
There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.
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Mark Twain
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
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Mark Twain
The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.
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Mark Twain
The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.
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Mark Twain
There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
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Mark Twain
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
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Mark Twain
The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.
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Mark Twain
Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.
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Mark Twain
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation .
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Mark Twain
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation .
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