Mark Twain quotes:

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected. (?!? Interesting, but I disagree)

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

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