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There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.. -Mark Twain.

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in Fench; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

I have not a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices.

Be good and you will be lonesome.

There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.

And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars — all over Europe, all over the world. 'Sometimes in the private interest of royal families,' Satan said, 'sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose — there is no such war in the history of the race.

If you don't like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes.

A man can seldom -- very, very, seldom -- fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

The two Great Unknowns, the two Illustrious Conjecturabilities! They are the best known unknown persons that have ever drawn breath upon the planet.