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3 December 2020 Mark Twain

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive but it is lightning that does the work.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very’ your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

To be good is noble but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

Laws control the lesser man… Right conduct controls the greater one.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

All generalizations are false, including this one.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

I’ve never let my school interfere with my education.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

3 December 2020 Mark Twain

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow there is no humor in Heaven.

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