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Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

Mark Twain
Inspiration, Effort, Special

Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat.

Mark Twain
Inspiration, Cat, Law

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Mark Twain
Fashion, Inspiration, Men
Autobiography vol. 1 (1924)

The Public is merely a multiplied 'me.'

Mark Twain
Inspiration
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.387, Courier Corporation

Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.

Mark Twain
Inspiration, Able, Stranger

I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.

Mark Twain
Inspiration, Sleep, Smoke

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

Mark Twain
Lying, Inspiration, Doe
Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.36, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose.

Mark Twain
Wisdom, Inspiration, Men
Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.10, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.

Mark Twain
Inspiration, Character, Personality
Pudd'nhead Wilson "A Whisper to the Reader," "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.

Mark Twain
Inspiration, May, Hills
Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.385, Courier Corporation

If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people

Mark Twain
Inspiration, People, Interesting
Mark Twain, John S. Tuckey (1972). “Mark Twain's Fables of Man”, p.196, Univ of California Press

Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth

Mark Twain
Inspiration, Government, Democracy

Wine is a clog to the pen, not an inspiration.

Mark Twain
Inspiration, Wine, Pens
Mark Twain (1977). “Life as I Find it: Essays, Sketches, and Tales, the Majority of which are Now Published in Book Form for the First Time”, HarperCollins Publishers

All our acts, reasoned and unreasoned, are selfish

Mark Twain
Selfish, Inspiration
Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, Albert Bigelow Paine (2014). “The Mark Twain Autobiography + 3 Biographies: 4 Mark Twain Biographies In 1 Book: Chapters From My Autobiography By Mark Twain + My Mark Twain By William Dean Howells’ + Mark Twain A Biography By Albert Bigelow Paine + The Boys’ Life Of Mark Twain By Albert Bigelow Paine”, p.846, e-artnow

I respect a man who knows how to spell a word more than one way.

Mark Twain
Respect, Inspiration, Men

Better a broken promise than none at all.

Mark Twain
Inspiration, Commitment, Broken
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.383, Courier Corporation

The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word.

Mark Twain
Inspiration, Use, Educated
Mark Twain, Peter Kaminsky (2009). “The Chicago of Europe, and Other Tales of Foreign Travel”, p.21, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

Mark Twain
Inspiration, Risk, Lines
Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.5388, Delphi Classics

Authorship is not a trade, it is an inspiration; authorship does not keep an office, its habitation is all out under the sky, and everywhere the winds are blowing and the sun is shining and the creatures of God are free.

Mark Twain
Inspiration, Wind, Sky
Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.3039, Delphi Classics

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