Mark Twain

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Quote	Categories	Rating	Rate
"Say the report is exaggerated."	Love, Death
"Many people have the reasoning facility, but no one uses it in religious matters."	Fear
"I don't know anything about this man. Anyhow, I only know two things about him. One is, he has never been in jail, and the other is, I don't know why."	Success, Insults
"Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed..."	Success, Insults
"If you don't know where you're going, any road will get you there."	Wisdom
"The best defense against logic is ignorance."	Wisdom
"The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity."	Age
"In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer."	Anger
"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare."	Courage
"Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."	Government, Forgiveness
"God: The most popular scapegoat for our sins."	God
"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."	Happiness
"The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right."	Success, Ignorance
"Yes, Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brain. So far you are correct. But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat - at least, not with certainty. If the specimen composition you send is about your fair usual average, I should judge that a couple of whales would be all you would want for the present. Not the largest kind, but simply good middling-sized whales."	Success, Insults
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."	Success, Life
"What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense."	Quotations
"But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?"	Religion
"Familiarity breeds contempt - and children."	Sex
"Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very;" your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."	Writing
"In all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane."	Miscellaneous
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