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- The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain
- The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
- Mark Twain
- The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
- Mark Twain
- The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.
- Mark Twain
- The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.
- Mark Twain
- There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.
- Mark Twain
- There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
- Mark Twain
- Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
- Mark Twain
- Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
- Mark Twain
- Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
- Mark Twain
- Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.
- Mark Twain
- We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.
- Mark Twain
- When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.
- Mark Twain
- When in doubt, tell the truth.
- Mark Twain
- When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.
- Mark Twain
- When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain
- When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one.
- Mark Twain
- Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
- Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
- Mark Twain
- I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.
- Mark Twain, "Is Shakespeare Dead?"
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