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“He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it — namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.”

Mark Twain book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Source: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Ch. 2

“Satan hasn't a single salaried helper; the Opposition employs a million.”

Mark Twain

“I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.”

Mark Twain

“It’s not the good that die young, it’s the lucky.”

Mark Twain

“He says every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind if you want to see it.”

Mark Twain

The Refuge of the Derelicts (unpublished manuscript written 1905–1906) <br class="br">Source: Google Books link https://books.google.com/books?id=uLfR7-ETm0MC&pg=PA326&dq=%22every+man+is+a+moon%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAGoVChMIn_iGm83gyAIVTedjCh0LwAap#v=onepage&q&f=false

“Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.”

Mark Twain

p. 114 http://books.google.com/books?id=qCDpAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Fame+is+a+vapor+popularity+an+accident+the+only+earthly+certainty+is+oblivion%22&pg=PA114#v=onepage <br class="br">Mark Twain's Notebook (1935)

“If you want me to give you a two-hour presentation, I am ready today. If you want only a five-minute speech, it will take me two weeks to prepare.”

Mark Twain

“Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.”

Mark Twain

“October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.”

Mark Twain book Pudd'nhead Wilson

Variant: December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.
Source: Pudd'nhead Wilson

“…I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the limit forty years ago. You can't go beyond possibility.”

Mark Twain

Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 2 (2013), p. 115

“Choosing not to read is like closing an open door to paradise”

Mark Twain

“By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.”

Mark Twain book Following the Equator

Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Ch. XXXIX
Following the Equator (1897)

“When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.”

Mark Twain book Pudd'nhead Wilson

Source: Pudd'nhead Wilson

“Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that 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.”