The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind of eye couldn't detect.
Mark TwainMan - a figment of God's imagination.
Mark TwainStichwörter: humor-god
Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.
Mark TwainStichwörter: statistics facts
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
Mark TwainStichwörter: remaining-silent reticence
If books are not good company, where shall I find it?
Mark TwainStichwörter: books
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.
Mark TwainThe true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with commoner things. It is chief of this world'd luxuries, king by grace of God over all the fruits of the earth. When one has tasted it, he knows what the angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took: we know it because she repented.
Mark TwainYou can't throw too much style into a miracle.
Mark TwainHe was endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around the globe four times and tie.
Mark TwainStichwörter: humor
I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them―then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any other vice.
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