The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter -- 'tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.
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The convention missionaries call modesty has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anybody's whim -- anybody's diseased caprice.Mark Twain
You can't reason with the heart it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.
Mark Twain
Education does not mean teaching people to know what they do not know it means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.
Mark Twain
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
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'Don't you worry, and don't you hurry.'I know that phrase by heart, and if all other music should perish out of the world it would still sing to me.
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My advice to women is First, don't smoke -- to excess Second, don't drink -- to excess Third, don't marry -- to excess.
Mark Twain
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