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I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists, and the opinion of the majority of them would not be worth tuppence in private, but when they speak in print it is the newspaper that is talking (the pygmy scribe

I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists, and the opinion of the majority of them would not be worth tuppence in private, but when they speak in print it is the newspaper that is talking (the pygmy scribe is not visible) and then their utterances shake the community like the thunders of prophecy.

Mark Twain
Media, Talking, Community
Mark Twain (1992). “Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1852-1890”

Stars and shadows ain't good to see by.

Mark Twain
Stars, Shadow
Mark Twain (2013). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, p.71, Lulu Press, Inc

Eventually, I sickened of people, myself included, who didn't think enough of themselves to make something of themselves- people who did only what they had to and never what they could have done. I learned from them the infected loneliness that comes at the end of every misspent day. I knew I could do better.

Mark Twain
Loneliness, Thinking, People

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. To live a fulfilled life, we need to keep creating the "what is next", of our lives. Without dreams and goals there is no living, only merely existing, and that is not why we are here.

Mark Twain
Dream, Inspirational Life, Creating

Learn from the mistakes of others - you won't live long enough to make them all yourself. He's opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer him the position.

Mark Twain
Mistake, Long, Would Be

The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.

Mark Twain
Self Esteem, Self Respect, Facts

Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century.

Mark Twain
Tradition, Century, Dynamite
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.74, Courier Corporation

Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted.

Mark Twain
Gratitude, Debt, Goes On
Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.3668, GENERAL PRESS

Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion

Mark Twain
Religious, Kindness, Men
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.402, Courier Corporation

Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.

Mark Twain
Age, Genius, Youth
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.141, Courier Corporation

The Christian Bible is a drug store. It´s contents have remained the same but the medical practice continues. For 1,800 years these changes were slight--scarcely noticeable... The dull and ignorant physician day and night, and all the days and all the nights, drenched his patient with vast and hideous doses of the most repulsive drugs to be found in the store´s stock. He kept him religion sick for eighteen centuries, and allowed him not a well day during all that time.

Mark Twain
Christian, Night, Practice

What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth.

Mark Twain
Law, Growth
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.231, Courier Corporation

I do not see how astronomers can help feeling exquisitely insignificant, for every new page of the Book of the Heavens they open reveals to them more and more that the world we are so proud of is to the universe of careening globes as is one mosquito to the winged and hoofed flocks and herds that darken the air and populate the plains and forests of all the earth. If you killed the mosquito would it be missed? Verily, What is Man, that he should be considered of God?

Mark Twain
Book, Men, Air

It is your human environment that makes climate

Mark Twain
People, Humanity, Climate
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.52, Courier Corporation

Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.

Mark Twain
Book, Picks

The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable.

Mark Twain
Soul, Unendurable, Mediocre
Mark Twain (1976). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume II: (1877-1883)”, p.142, Univ of California Press

We are always hearing of people who are around seeking after the Truth. I have never seen a (permanent) specimen. I think he has never lived. But I have seen several entirely sincere people who thought they were (permanent) Seekers after the Truth. They sought diligently, persistently, carefully, cautiously, profoundly, with perfect honesty and nicely adjusted judgment- until they believed that without doubt or question they had found the Truth. That was the end of the search. The man spent the rest of his hunting up shingles wherewith to protect his Truth from the weather.

Mark Twain
Truth, Honesty, Men

The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.

Mark Twain
School, Half, Firsts

Time spent with your children is time wisely spent.

Mark Twain
Children, Your Children, Our Children

To avoid lying, do nothing that needs covering.

Mark Twain
Lying, Covering, Needs

That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

Mark Twain
Government, Differences, Entrepreneur
Mark Twain, Peter Kaminsky (2009). “The Chicago of Europe, and Other Tales of Foreign Travel”, p.253, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

Mark Twain
Book, Wine, Water

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Mark Twain
Motivational, Work, Yoga
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ch. 2 (1876)

You can't pray a lie -- I found that out.

Mark Twain
Lying, Praying, Found
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ch. 31 (1884)

An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth, lest his soul be not saved if he do otherwise, should reflect that that sort of a soul is not strictly worth saving.

Mark Twain
Truth, Lying, Men
Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.2132, GENERAL PRESS

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