Mark Twain

(100 votes)   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.

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(100 votes)   She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

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1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(99 votes)   There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.

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(98 votes)   If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people.

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(98 votes)   True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god.

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(97 votes)   Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.

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(97 votes)   There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.

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(96 votes)   The report of my death was an exaggeration After reading his own obituary, June 2 1897

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(95 votes)   Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

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(95 votes)   To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

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(94 votes)   I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse

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(94 votes)   Never do wrong when people are looking.

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(93 votes)   From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one -- to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for HIMSELF.

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(93 votes)   He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.

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(92 votes)   Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

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1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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