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December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.

December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.

Mark Twain
June, July, August

Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you have not lived you cannot write, you can only pretend to write it.

Mark Twain
Hard Work, Writing, Apprenticeship
Mark Twain, R. Kent Rasmussen (1997). “The quotable Mark Twain: his essential aphorisms, witticisms & concise opinions”, McGraw-Hill/Contemporary

I'm a very old man. I've had lots of problems. Most of them never happened..!

Mark Twain
Men, Problem, Old Man

A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by.

Mark Twain
Men, Glaciers, Alps
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.152, Courier Corporation

I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.

Mark Twain
Music, Two, Adjectives
Mark Twain (2015). “A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.237, 谷月社

We can achieve what we can conceive and believe.

Mark Twain
Believe, Achieve

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.

Mark Twain
Education, School, Jail
Mark Twain (2006). “Mark Twain Speaking”, p.362, University of Iowa Press

It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not been standing still, in that matter.

Mark Twain
Growing, Littles, Matter
Mark Twain (2015). “Life On The Mississippi: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.264, 谷月社

Homely truth is unpalatable.

Mark Twain
Truth, Truth Is, Homely
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.485, Courier Corporation

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain
Funny, Death, Exaggeration Is
Quoted in N.Y. Journal, 2 June 1897. These words were preceded by "James Ross Clemens, of St. Louis, a cousin of mine, was seriously ill two or three weeks ago in London, but is well now. The report of my illness grew out of his illness." The quotation is usually reported as "Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated." Much earlier (5 July 1863), the following appeared in a letter by Twain to the Territorial Enterprise: "There was a report about town, last night, that Charles Strong, Esq

The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it.

Mark Twain
Editors, Eggs, Bugs
Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.53, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

Mark Twain
Love, Heart, Law
Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.164, Createspace Independent Pub

It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing-and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite - that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.

Mark Twain
Simple, Men, Ninety Nine
Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.7082, Delphi Classics

when we badly want a thing, we go to hunting for good and righteous reasons for it; we give it that fine name to comfort our consciences, whereas we privately know we are only hunting for plausible ones.

Mark Twain
Hunting, Names, Giving
Mark Twain (2011). “No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger”, p.130, Univ of California Press

whenever the literary german dives into a sentence, this is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

Mark Twain
Funny, Humor, German Language
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court ch. 22 (1889)

That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.

Mark Twain
People, Way, Knows
Mark Twain “Tom Sawyer Collection: All Four Books”, Lulu.com

The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.

Mark Twain
Sad, Laughter, Sorrow

To be busy is man's only happiness.

Mark Twain
Happiness, Determination, Men
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.171, Courier Corporation

Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.

Mark Twain
Happiness, Optimistic, Positivity
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.340, Courier Corporation

Another editor. That thing behind his ear is his pencil. Whenever he finds a bright thing in your manuscript he strikes it out with that. That does him good, and makes him smile and show his teeth, the way he is doing in the picture. This one has just been striking out a smart thing, and now he is sitting there with his thumbs in his vest-holes, gloating. They are full of envy and malice, editors are.

Mark Twain
Smart, Editors, Envy
Mark Twain (2014). “What Is Man? (Annotated Edition)”, p.138, Jazzybee Verlag

To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology.

Mark Twain
Men, Sheep, Ideas
Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.33, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

Mark Twain
Inspirational, Life, Diversity
Mark Twain (2000). “The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories”, p.102, Book Tree

To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it.

Mark Twain
Art, Flattery, Compliment
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.63, Courier Corporation

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.

Mark Twain
Men, Two, Jail
Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.7187, Delphi Classics

What is the real function, the essential function, the supreme function, of language? Isn't it merely to convey ideas and emotions? Certainly. Then if we can do it with words of fonetic brevity and compactness, why keep the present cumbersome forms?

Mark Twain
Real, Ideas, Essentials
Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain”, p.276, Univ of California Press

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