My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
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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.
Mark Twain
A man's house burns down. The smoking wreckage represents only a ruined home that was dear through years of use and pleasant associations. By and by, as the days and weeks go on, first he misses this, then that, then the other thing. And when he casts about for it he finds that it was in that house. Always it is an essential -- there was but one of its kind. It cannot be replaced. It was in that house. It is irrevocably lost. It will be years before the tale of lost essentials is complete, and not till then can he truly know the magnitude of his disaster.
Mark Twain
Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
Mark Twain
We are discreet sheep we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. We have two opinions one private, which we are afraid to express and another one the one we use which we force ourselves to wear to please Mrs. Grundy, until habit makes us comfortable in it, and the custom of defending it presently makes us love it, adore it, and forget how pitifully we came by it. Look at it in politics.
Mark Twain
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