Mark Twain

(63 votes)   An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(61 votes)   Faith is believing what you know ain't so.

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(61 votes)   Golf is a good walk spoiled.

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(61 votes)   When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one.

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(61 votes)   You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.

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(59 votes)   A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

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(59 votes)   I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.

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(59 votes)   What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.

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(58 votes)   A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

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(58 votes)   God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

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(58 votes)   I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

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(58 votes)   I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

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(58 votes)   If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

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(58 votes)   In his private heart no man much respects himself.

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(57 votes)   A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

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