"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
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Mark Twain
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Quotes by Mark Twain
"In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them."
"Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it."
"Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been."
"Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty."
"The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also."
"Familiarity breeds contempt and children."
"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
"What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey."
"No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session."
"Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody."
"A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it."
"Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other."
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man."
"You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?"
"I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it."
"I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened."
"A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it."
"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."
"It usually takes me two or three days to prepare an impromptu speech."