Great enterprises usually promise vastly more than they perform.
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It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.Mark Twain
The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won't sit upon a cold stove lid, either.
Mark Twain
Words in haste do friendships waste.
Mark Twain
I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way, by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else....I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this That we can't reach old age by another man's road.
Mark Twain
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
Mark Twain
I can't do literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant
Mark Twain
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