Mark Twain

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"It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand."	Fear
"The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause."	Wisdom
"How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?"	Wisdom
"If true, rarely beautiful. If beautiful, rarely true."	Wisdom
"Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others."	Love, Confidence
"But when the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface."	Food
"Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it."	Comedy, Honesty
"Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned."	Success, Learning
"October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February."	Money
"We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess."	God, Talent
"O Lord our God, help us tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it."	Anti-Religion, War
"When in doubt, tell the truth."	Comedy, Honesty
"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 druther not."	Health
"My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders."	Patriotism
"The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say."	Writing
"Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it."	Comedy, Honesty
"Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse. He will go to any length for it-risk fortune, character, reputation, life itself."	Sex
"We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter."	Knowledge
"We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents."	Fear
"Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog."	Education
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