American - Author | November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910
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.
Mark Twain
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Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.
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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
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There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.
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The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.
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I never smoke to excess - that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.
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A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
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Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
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Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
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Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
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Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.
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I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
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