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Mark Twain

Mark Twain
India has 2,000,000 gods, and worships them all. In religion, other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.
I do not like work even when someone else does it.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press.
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.
Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty - the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heal that has crushed it.