“Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.”
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Mark Twain
1835–1910159 quotes
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature." Twain's novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called the "Great American Novel."
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“Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.”
“All generalizations are false, including this one.”
“I can live for two months on a good compliment.”
“Golf is a good walk spoiled.”
“Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.”
“Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.”
“To be good is noble but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.”
“Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.”
“My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.”
“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.”
“The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.”
“I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.”
“When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.”
“Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.”
“Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.”
“[He] was endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around the globe four times and tie.”
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“Substitute 'd--n' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
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“Never let your College interfere with your education.”
“Never let your schooling interfere with your educations.”
“Whatever doesn't kill you, makes you stronger.”
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