Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

Mark Twain

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Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Mark Twain

Mots clés life friendship friends books contentment

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There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

Mark Twain

Mots clés civilization savages

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Well, mamma, the Indians believed they knew, but now we know they were wrong. By and by it can turn out that we are wrong. So now I only pray that there might be a God and a heaven – or something better.

Mark Twain

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Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

Mark Twain

Mots clés morals

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There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass, for instance: his character is about perfect, he is the choicest spirit among all the humbler animals, yet see what ridicule has brought him to. Instead of feeling complimented when we are called an ass, we are left in doubt.

Mark Twain

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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.

Mark Twain

Mots clés wisdom libraries books bookroom

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You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

Mark Twain

Mots clés reason heart

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Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.

Mark Twain

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I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

Mark Twain

Mots clés duels

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