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A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

By Mark Twain

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

By Mark Twain

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

By Mark Twain

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose.

By Mark Twain

A man with a new idea is a crank -- until the idea succeeds.

By Mark Twain

A man is accepted into church for what he believes--and turned out for what he knows.

By Mark Twain

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

By Mark Twain

A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

By Mark Twain

A house without a cat, and a well-fed, well-petted, and properly revered cat, may be a perfect house, perhaps, but how can it prove its title --from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

By Mark Twain

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

By Mark Twain

A classic is a book which people praise and don't read.

By Mark Twain

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

By Mark Twain

A Classic is something that everyone wants to have read but nobody wants to read.

By Mark Twain

A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother

By Mark Twain

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

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[He was] a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.

By Mark Twain

[Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution—these can lift at a colossal humbug—push it a little—weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

By Mark Twain

[Mankind] is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it.

By Mark Twain

'One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

By Mark Twain

'When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.

By Mark Twain

'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

By Mark Twain

'Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

By Mark Twain

Sacred cows make the best hamburgers.

By Mark Twain

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

By Mark Twain

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

By Mark Twain

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

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

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It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

By Mark Twain

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

By Mark Twain