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“Well, everybody does it that way, Huck."
"Tom, I am not everybody.”

Mark Twain book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Source: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“If you must be indiscrete, be discrete in your indiscretion.”

Mark Twain

“Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”

Mark Twain book The Innocents Abroad

Vol. II, Conclusion http://books.google.com/books?id=f4EwNleAjJAC&amp;q=%22Travel+is+fatal+to+prejudice+bigotry+and+narrow-mindedness+and+many+of+our+people+need+it+sorely+on+these+accounts+Broad+wholesome+charitable+views+of+men+and+things+cannot+be+acquired+by+vegetating+in+one+little+corner+of+the+earth+all+one&#x27;s+lifetime%22&amp;pg=PA333#v=onepage <br class="br">Source: The Innocents Abroad (1869) <br class="br">Context: Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one&#x27;s lifetime.

“Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.”

Mark Twain

“It is higher and nobler to be kind.”

Mark Twain

“The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.”

Mark Twain

“Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh.”

Mark Twain book Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc

Source: Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc

“Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.”

Mark Twain

Variant: great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.

“It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.”

Mark Twain

“I don't want no better book than what your face is.”

Mark Twain book Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing.”

Mark Twain

“Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.”

Mark Twain

Mark Twain's Notebook (1935)

“He was sunshine most always-I mean he made it seem like good weather.”

Mark Twain book Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good.”

Mark Twain